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Descriptive set theory is mainly concerned with studying subsets of the space of all countable binary sequences. In this paper we study the generalization where countable is replaced by uncountable. We explore properties of generalized…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Sy-David Friedman , Tapani Hyttinen , Vadim Kulikov

The paper tries to extend results of the classical Descriptive Set Theory to as many countably based T_0-spaces (cb_0-spaces) as possible. Along with extending some central facts about Borel, Luzin and Hausdorff hierarchies of sets we…

General Topology · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Victor Selivanov

These are lecture notes from a course I gave at the University of Wisconsin during the Spring semester of 1993. Part 1 is concerned with Borel hierarchies. Section 13 contains an unpublished theorem of Fremlin concerning Borel hierarchies…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Arnold Miller

We provide a comprehensive development of the basics of descriptive set theory for non-separable complete metric spaces whose weight is a singular cardinal $\lambda$ of countable confinality. Somewhat unexpectedly, the resulting theory is…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Vincenzo Dimonte , Luca Motto Ros

There is a fascinating interplay and overlap between recursion theory and descriptive set theory. A particularly beautiful source of such interaction has been Martin's conjecture on Turing invariant functions. This longstanding open problem…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Andrew Marks , Theodore Slaman , John Steel

Descriptive set theory was originally developed on Polish spaces. It was later extended to $\omega$-continuous domains [Selivanov 2004] and recently to quasi-Polish spaces [de Brecht 2013]. All these spaces are countably-based. Extending…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Mathieu Hoyrup

We classify which local problems with inputs on oriented paths have so-called Borel solution and show that this class of problems remains the same if we instead require a measurable solution, a factor of iid solution, or a solution with the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-29 Jan Grebík , Václav Rozhoň

The paper is a naive introduction to descriptive set theory. It is aimed mathematicians without a background in logic. The goal is to provide the basic facts used for applications of descriptive set theory to other areas of mathematics,…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Matthew Foreman

We firstly show that due to their resplendency ordered henselian valued fields admit relative field quantifier elimination in the Denef--Pas language expanded by linear orders in the field and residue field sort. Secondly, we deduce from a…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Lothar Sebastian Krapp , Floris Vermeulen

We define and study expansion problems on countable structures in the setting of descriptive combinatorics. We consider both expansions on countable Borel equivalence relations and on countable groups, in the Borel, measure and category…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Michael Wolman

We study the complexity of the classification problem for countable models of set theory (ZFC). We prove that the classification of arbitrary countable models of ZFC is Borel complete, meaning that it is as complex as it can conceivably be.…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-07-21 John Clemens , Samuel Coskey , Samuel Dworetzky

In recent years, much work in descriptive set theory has been focused on the Borel complexity of naturally occurring classification problems, in particular, the study of countable Borel equivalence relations and their structure under the…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-06-07 Jay Williams

We study the complexity of locally checkable labeling (LCL) problems on $\mathbb{Z}^n$ from the point of view of descriptive set theory, computability theory, and factors of i.i.d. Our results separate various complexity classes that were…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Katalin Berlow , Anton Bernshteyn , Clark Lyons , Felix Weilacher

The notion of computable reducibility between equivalence relations on the natural numbers provides a natural computable analogue of Borel reducibility. We investigate the computable reducibility hierarchy, comparing and contrasting it with…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Samuel Coskey , Joel David Hamkins , Russell Miller

In a recent article, we introduced and studied a precise class of dynamical systems called solvable systems. These systems present a dynamic ruled by discontinuous ordinary differential equations with solvable right-hand terms and unique…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Riccardo Gozzi , Olivier Bournez

We give a partial answer to an important open problem in descriptive set theory, the Decomposability Conjecture for Borel functions on an analytic subset of a Polish space to a separable metrizable space. Our techniques employ deep results…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-05-27 Vassilios Gregoriades , Takayuki Kihara , Keng Meng Ng

This report consists of two parts. The first part is a brief exposition of classical descriptive set theory. This part introduces some fundamental concepts, motivations and results from the classical theory and ends with a section on the…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-08-30 Alex Galicki

The quest for complete observables in general relativity has been a longstanding open problem. We employ methods from descriptive set theory to show that no complete observable on rich enough collections of spacetimes is Borel definable. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-24 Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos , George Sparling , Marios Christodoulou

We prove that topological isomorphism on procountable groups is not classifiable by countable structures, in the sense of descriptive set theory. In fact, the equivalence relation $\ell_\infty$ expressing that two sequences of reals have a…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Su Gao , André Nies , Gianluca Paolini

We modify arguments by Harrington, Marker, and Shelah, 1990, to reprove extensions of two key results in their paper "Borel orderings"in the context of bounding and decomposition of analytic subsets of Borel partial quasi-orderings.

Logic · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Vladimir Kanovei
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