On Sets That Encode Themselves
Abstract
Given partial information about a set, we are interested in fully recovering the original set from what is given. If a set encodes itself robustly, any partial information about the set suffices to fully recover the information about the original set. Jockusch defined a set to be introenumerable if each infinite subset of can enumerate , and this is an example of a set which encodes itself. There are several other notions capturing self-encoding differently. We say is uniformly introenumerable if each infinite subset of can uniformly enumerate , whereas is introreducible if each infinite subset of can compute . We investigate properties of various notions of self-encoding and prove new results on their interactions. Greenberg, Harrison-Trainor, Patey, and Turetsky showed that we can always find some uniformity from an introenumerable set. We show that this can be reversed: we can construct an introenumerable set by patching up uniformity. This gives a rise to a new method of constructing a nontrivial introenumerable or introreducible set.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2602.11134,
title = {On Sets That Encode Themselves},
author = {Taeyoung Em},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.11134},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
33 pages, 1 figure (using tikz), submitted to Computability journal