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RELATIVE DEFINABILITY OF n-GENERICS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2018

WEI WANG*
Affiliation:
INSTITUTE OF LOGIC AND COGNITION AND DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY 135 XINGANG XI ROAD GUANGZHOU 510275, P.R. CHINAE-mail: wwang.cn@gmail.com

Abstract

A set $G \subseteq \omega$ is n-generic for a positive integer n if and only if every ${\rm{\Sigma }}_n^0$ formula of G is decided by a finite initial segment of G in the sense of Cohen forcing. It is shown here that every n-generic set G is properly ${\rm{\Sigma }}_n^0$ in some G-recursive X. As a corollary, we also prove that for every $n > 1$ and every n-generic set G there exists a G-recursive X which is generalized ${\rm{lo}}{{\rm{w}}_n}$ but not generalized ${\rm{lo}}{{\rm{w}}_{n - 1}}$. Thus we confirm two conjectures of Jockusch [4].

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Copyright © The Association for Symbolic Logic 2018 

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