Plus cupping degrees do not form an ideal

  • Angsheng Li*
  • , Yicheng Zhao
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A computably enumerable (c.e., for short) degree a is called plus cupping, if every c.e. degree x with 0 < x ≤ a is cuppable. Let PC be the set of all plus cupping degrees. In the present paper, we show that PC is not closed under the join operation v by constructing two plus cupping degrees which join to a high degree. So by the Harrington's noncupping theorem, PC is not an ideal of ε. Copyright by Science in China Press 2004.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)635-654
Number of pages20
JournalScience in China, Series F: Information Sciences
Volume47
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2004
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Computably enumerable set
  • Definability
  • Turing degree

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