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On bi-embeddable categoricity of algebraic structures

Logic 2021-11-30 v1

Abstract

In several classes of countable structures it is known that every hyperarithmetic structure has a computable presentation up to bi-embeddability. In this article we investigate the complexity of embeddings between bi-embeddable structures in two such classes, the classes of linear orders and Boolean algebras. We show that if L\mathcal L is a computable linear order of Hausdorff rank nn, then for every bi-embeddable copy of it there is an embedding computable in 2n12n-1 jumps from the atomic diagrams. We furthermore show that this is the best one can do: Let L\mathcal L be a computable linear order of Hausdorff rank n1n\geq 1, then 0(2n2)\mathbf 0^{(2n-2)} does not compute embeddings between it and all its computable bi-embeddable copies. We obtain that for Boolean algebras which are not superatomic, there is no hyperarithmetic degree computing embeddings between all its computable bi-embeddable copies. On the other hand, if a computable Boolean algebra is superatomic, then there is a least computable ordinal α\alpha such that 0(α)\mathbf 0^{(\alpha)} computes embeddings between all its computable bi-embeddable copies. The main technique used in this proof is a new variation of Ash and Knight's pairs of structures theorem.

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@article{arxiv.2005.07829,
  title  = {On bi-embeddable categoricity of algebraic structures},
  author = {Nikolay Bazhenov and Dino Rossegger and Maxim Zubkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.07829},
  year   = {2021}
}
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