Computable structures in generic extensions

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Abstract: In this paper, we investigate connections between structures present in every generic extension of the universe V and computability theory. We introduce the notion of {em generic Muchnik reducibility} that can be used to to compare the complexity of uncountable structures; we establish basic properties of this reducibility, and study it in the context of {em generic presentability}, the existence of a copy of the structure in every extension by a given forcing. We show that every forcing notion making omega2 countable generically presents some countable structure with no copy in the ground model; and that every structure generically presentble by a forcing notion that does not make omega2 countable has a copy in the ground model. We also show that any countable structure mathcalA that is generically presentable by a forcing notion not collapsing omega1 has a countable copy in V, as does any structure mathcalB generically Muchnik reducible to a structure mathcalA of cardinality aleph1. The former positive result yields a new proof of Harrington's result that counterexamples to Vaught's conjecture have models of power aleph1 with Scott rank arbitrarily high below omega2. Finally, we show that a rigid structure with copies in all generic extensions by a given forcing has a copy already in the ground model.











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