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On computational complexity in weakly admissible structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Viggo Stoltenberg-Hansen
Viggo Stoltenberg-Hansen*
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University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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The theory of abstract computational complexity in ordinary recursion theory (ORT) was initiated by Rabin [7] and Blum [1]. Jacobs [5] generalized the notions to recursion theory on an admissible ordinal α(α-recursion theory) and proved in this setting certain main theorems such as Blum's Theorem and the Compression Theorem.

In ORT the notions of “finite” and “bounded” coincide. Thus when lifting a theorem from ORT to α-recursion theory, “finite” may be translated to either “bounded below α” or to the stronger and more natural “α-finite”. Jacobs conjectured that “bounded below α” was the best possible in the theorems mentioned above. In this paper we shall prove that the stronger version of these theorems are, in fact, true. Furthermore our constructions are uniform for all admissible α.

Rather than restricting ourselves to α-recursion theory we shall consider transitive rudimentarily closed structures M = 〈M, ∈, R〉 which admit what we call an acceptable prewellordering. The special case M = 〈Lα, ∈〉 and M = 〈Sβ, ∈〉 where α is admissible and β a limit ordinal constitute, respectively, α-recursion theory and β-recursion theory (see Friedman [4]).

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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , June 1980 , pp. 353 - 358
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1980

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