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Some computability-theoretic reductions between principles around $\mathsf{ATR}_0$

Logic 2019-05-17 v1

Abstract

We study the computational content of various theorems with reverse mathematical strength around Arithmetical Transfinite Recursion (ATR0\mathsf{ATR}_0) from the point of view of computability-theoretic reducibilities, in particular Weihrauch reducibility. Our first main result states that it is equally hard to construct an embedding between two given well-orderings, as it is to construct a Turing jump hierarchy on a given well-ordering. This answers a question of Marcone. We obtain a similar result for Fra\"iss\'e's conjecture restricted to well-orderings. We then turn our attention to K\"onig's duality theorem, which generalizes K\"onig's theorem about matchings and covers to infinite bipartite graphs. Our second main result shows that the problem of constructing a K\"onig cover of a given bipartite graph is roughly as hard as the following "two-sided" version of the aforementioned jump hierarchy problem: given a linear ordering LL, construct either a jump hierarchy on LL (which may be a pseudohierarchy), or an infinite LL-descending sequence. We also obtain several results relating the above problems with choice on Baire space (choosing a path on a given ill-founded tree) and unique choice on Baire space (given a tree with a unique path, produce said path).

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@article{arxiv.1905.06868,
  title  = {Some computability-theoretic reductions between principles around $\mathsf{ATR}_0$},
  author = {Jun Le Goh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.06868},
  year   = {2019}
}
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