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The computational content of intrinsic density

Logic 2017-09-06 v2

Abstract

In a previous paper, the author introduced the idea of intrinsic density --- a restriction of asymptotic density to sets whose density is invariant under computable permutation. We prove that sets with well-defined intrinsic density (and particularly intrinsic density 0) exist only in Turing degrees that are either high (aT"\mathbf{a}'\ge_{\rm T}\emptyset") or compute a diagonally non-computable function. By contrast, a classic construction of an immune set in every non-computable degree actually yields a set with intrinsic lower density 0 in every non-computable degree. We also show that the former result holds in the sense of reverse mathematics, in that (over RCA0\mathsf{RCA}_0) the existence of a dominating or diagonally non-computable function is equivalent to the existence of a set with intrinsic density 0.

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@article{arxiv.1708.04267,
  title  = {The computational content of intrinsic density},
  author = {Eric P. Astor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.04267},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Submitted. 12 pages, 2 figures

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