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Results in descriptive set theory on some represented spaces

Logic 2017-12-12 v1 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

Descriptive set theory was originally developed on Polish spaces. It was later extended to ω\omega-continuous domains [Selivanov 2004] and recently to quasi-Polish spaces [de Brecht 2013]. All these spaces are countably-based. Extending descriptive set theory and its effective counterpart to general represented spaces, including non-countably-based spaces has been started in [Pauly, de Brecht 2015]. We study the spaces O(NN)\mathcal{O}(\mathbb{N}^\mathbb{N}), C(NN,2)\mathcal{C}(\mathbb{N}^\mathbb{N},2) and the Kleene-Kreisel spaces Nα\mathbb{N}\langle\alpha\rangle. We show that there is a Σ20\Sigma^0_2-subset of O(NN)\mathcal{O}(\mathbb{N}^\mathbb{N}) which is not Borel. We show that the open subsets of NNN\mathbb{N}^{\mathbb{N}^\mathbb{N}} cannot be continuously indexed by elements of NN\mathbb{N}^\mathbb{N} or even NNN\mathbb{N}^{\mathbb{N}^\mathbb{N}}, and more generally that the open subsets of Nα\mathbb{N}\langle\alpha\rangle cannot be continuously indexed by elements of Nα\mathbb{N}\langle\alpha\rangle. We also derive effective versions of these results. These results give answers to recent open questions on the classification of spaces in terms of their base-complexity, introduced in [de Brecht, Schr\"oder, Selivanov 2016]. In order to obtain these results, we develop general techniques which are refinements of Cantor's diagonal argument involving multi-valued fixed-point free functions and that are interesting on their own right.

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@article{arxiv.1712.03680,
  title  = {Results in descriptive set theory on some represented spaces},
  author = {Mathieu Hoyrup},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.03680},
  year   = {2017}
}
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