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On Sets That Encode Themselves

Logic 2026-02-12 v1

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 AA to be introenumerable if each infinite subset of AA can enumerate AA, and this is an example of a set which encodes itself. There are several other notions capturing self-encoding differently. We say AA is uniformly introenumerable if each infinite subset of AA can uniformly enumerate AA, whereas AA is introreducible if each infinite subset of AA can compute AA. 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.

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@article{arxiv.2602.11134,
  title  = {On Sets That Encode Themselves},
  author = {Taeyoung Em},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.11134},
  year   = {2026}
}

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33 pages, 1 figure (using tikz), submitted to Computability journal