Indivisibility and uniform computational strength
Abstract
A countable structure is indivisible if for every coloring with finite range there is a monochromatic isomorphic subcopy of the structure. Each indivisible structure naturally corresponds to an indivisibility problem which outputs such a subcopy given a presentation and coloring. We investigate the Weihrauch complexity of the indivisibility problems for two structures: the rational numbers as a linear order, and the equivalence relation with countably many equivalence classes each having countably many members. We separate the Weihrauch degrees of both corresponding indivisibility problems from several benchmarks, showing in particular that the indivisibility problem for cannot solve the problem of finding a monochromatic rational interval given a coloring for which there is one; and that the Weihrauch degree of the indivisibility problem for is strictly between those of and , two widely studied variants of Ramsey's theorem for pairs whose reverse-mathematical separation was open until recently.
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@article{arxiv.2312.03919,
title = {Indivisibility and uniform computational strength},
author = {Kenneth Gill},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.03919},
year = {2025}
}