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Decomposition and infima in the computably enumerable degrees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Rodney G. Downey
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Victoria University, P.O. BOX 600, Wellington, New Zealand, E-mail: Rod.Downey@mcs.vuw.ac.nz
Geoffrey L. Laforte
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of West Florida, 11000 University Parkway, Pensacola, FL 32514, USA, E-mail: glaforte@uwf.edu
Richard A. Shore
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Malott Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA, E-mail: shore@math.cornell.edu

Abstract

Given two incomparable c.e. Turing degrees a and b, we show that there exists a c.e. degree c such that c = (ac) ∩ (bc), acbc, and c < ab.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2003

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