Countable initial segments of the degrees of unsolvability
- 1 June 1976
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Symbolic Logic
- Vol. 41 (2) , 289-300
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2272227
Abstract
In this paper we show that any countable upper semilattice with zero can be embedded as an initial segment of the degrees of unsolvability. This provides a characterization of the order types of the countable initial segments of the degrees since any such initial segment is trivially an initial segment of a countable upper semilattice. Let a segment S of the degrees be a set of degrees such that, if a, b Є S and a < c < b, then c Є S. One may readily observe that our result also characterizes the order types of all countable segments of the degrees of unsolvability.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: