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Rigid many-one degrees contain infinite antichains of $1$-degrees

Logic 2026-02-27 v3

Abstract

Odifreddi asked whether every non-irreducible many-one degree must contain an infinite antichain of one-one degrees. Positive answers are known for computably enumerable many-one degrees (Degtev) and, more recently, for many-one degrees admitting a Δ20\Delta^0_2 representative (Batyrshin). In this note we isolate a rigidity principle behind these phenomena. Call a set AωA\subseteq\omega \emph{mm-rigid} if every total computable mm-autoreduction of AA is eventually the identity. We prove that if AA is mm-rigid, then its many-one degree degm(A)\deg_m(A) contains an infinite antichain of 11-degrees. The proof uses a uniform duplication construction: for each computable parameter SS we define BSmAB_S\equiv_m A so that any injective reduction BS1BTB_S\le_1 B_T induces an mm-autoreduction of AA and therefore forces STS\subseteq^{*}T. Choosing an almost-inclusion infinite antichain of computable sets yields the desired infinite 11-antichain inside degm(A)\deg_m(A). As applications, Jockusch's rigidity theorem implies that every 11-generic set is mm-rigid, giving a comeager family of positive instances. Moreover, mm-rigidity holds with Lebesgue measure 11 (indeed, every Martin-L\"of random real is mm-rigid). Consequently, Odifreddi's Question~5 has a positive answer \emph{with probability 11} for a fair-coin random A2ωA\in 2^\omega; any counterexample (if it exists) is confined to a null set (and, by genericity, also to a meager set).

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@article{arxiv.2602.19960,
  title  = {Rigid many-one degrees contain infinite antichains of $1$-degrees},
  author = {Patrizio Cintioli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.19960},
  year   = {2026}
}