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Monotone reducibility and the family of infinite sets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Douglas Cenzer
Douglas Cenzer*
Affiliation:
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611
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Abstract

Let A and B be subsets of the space 2N of sets of natural numbers. A is said to be Wadge reducible to B if there is a continuous map Φ from 2N into 2N such that A = Φ−1 (B); A is said to be monotone reducible to B if in addition the map Φ is monotone, that is, a ⊂ b implies Φ(a) ⊂ Φ(b). The set A is said to be monotone if a ∈ A and a ⊂ b imply b ∈ A. For monotone sets, it is shown that, as for Wadge reducibility, sets low in the arithmetical hierarchy are nicely ordered. The sets are all reducible to the ( but not ) sets, which are in turn all reducible to the strictly sets, which are all in turn reducible to the strictly sets. In addition, the nontrivial sets all have the same degree for n ≤ 2. For Wadge reducibility, these results extend throughout the Borel hierarchy. In contrast, we give two natural strictly monotone sets which have different monotone degrees. We show that every monotone set is actually positive. We also consider reducibility for subsets of the space of compact subsets of 2N. This leads to the result that the finitely iterated Cantor-Bendixson derivative Dn is a Borel map of class exactly 2n, which answers a question of Kuratowski.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , September 1984 , pp. 774 - 782
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1984

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