Degree spectra of relations on a cone

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Abstract: Let mathcalA be a mathematical structure with an additional relation R. We are interested in the degree spectrum of R, either among computable copies of mathcalA when (mathcalA,R) is a "natural" structure, or (to make this rigorous) among copies of (mathcalA,R) computable in a large degree extbf{d}. We introduce the partial order of degree spectra extit{on a cone} and begin the study of these objects. Using a result of Harizanov---that, assuming an effectiveness condition on mathcalA and R, if R is not intrinsically computable, then its degree spectrum contains all c.e. degrees---we see that there is a minimal non-trivial degree spectrum on a cone, consisting of the c.e. degrees. We show that this does not generalize to d.c.e. degrees by giving an example of two incomparable degree spectra on a cone. We also give a partial answer to a question of Ash and Knight: they asked whether (subject to some effectiveness conditions) a relation which is not intrinsically Deltaa0lpha must have a degree spectrum which contains all of the alpha-CEA degrees. We give a positive answer to this question for alpha=2 by showing that any degree spectrum on a cone which strictly contains the Delta20 degrees must contain all of the 2-CEA degrees. We also investigate the particular case of degree spectra on the structure (omega,<). This work represents the beginning of an investigation of the degree spectra of "natural" structures, and we leave many open questions to be answered.



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