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Orbits of computably enumerable sets: low sets can avoid an upper cone

✍ Scribed by Russell Miller


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
222 KB
Volume
118
Category
Article
ISSN
0168-0072

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✦ Synopsis


We investigate the orbit of a low computably enumerable (c.e.) set under automorphisms of the partial order E of c.e. sets under inclusion. Given an arbitrary low c.e. set A and an arbitrary noncomputable c.e. set C, we use the New Extension Theorem of Soare to construct an automorphism of E mapping A to a set B such that C T B. Thus, the orbit in E of the low set A cannot be contained in the upper cone above C. This complements a result of Harrington, who showed that the orbit of a noncomputable c.e. set cannot be contained in the lower cone below any incomplete c.e. set.