Reduction Complexities in Set Theory
Abstract
In \cite{Ca2016} and \cite{Ca2018}, we introduced a notion of effective reducibility between set-theoretical -statements; in \cite{Ca2025}, this was extended to statements of arbitrary (potentially even infinite) quantifier complexity. We also considered a corresponding notion of Weihrauch reducibility, which allows only one call to the effectivizer of in a reduction of to . In Stammes \cite{StammesMaster}, a considerably refined analysis through interpolating between these two notions was proposed, where one asks how many calls to an effectivizer for are required for effectivizing . This allows us to make formally precise questions such as ``how many ordinals does one need to check for being cardinals in order to compute the cardinality of a given ordinal?'' and (partially) answer many of them. Many of these anwers turn out to be independent of ZFC.
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@article{arxiv.2509.02766,
title = {Reduction Complexities in Set Theory},
author = {Merlin Carl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.02766},
year = {2026}
}