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Measure and cupping in the Turing degrees
Authors:
George Barmpalias and Andrew E. M. Lewis
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
MSC (2010):
Primary 03D28; Secondary 03D10
Posted:
February 6, 2012
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Abstract: We answer a question of Jockusch by showing that the measure of the Turing degrees that satisfy the cupping property is 0. In fact, every 2-random degree has a strong minimal cover and so fails to satisfy the cupping property.
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George Barmpalias
Affiliation:
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, Universiteit van Amsterdam 1090 GE, P.O. Box 94242, The Netherlands
Email:
barmpalias@gmail.com
Andrew E. M. Lewis
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT Leeds, United Kingdom
Email:
andy@aemlewis.com
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2012-11183-9
PII:
S 0002-9939(2012)11183-9
Received by editor(s):
January 24, 2011
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
March 11, 2011 and April 5, 2011
Posted:
February 6, 2012
Additional Notes:
The second author was supported by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship.
Communicated by:
Julia Knight
Article copyright:
© Copyright 2012 American Mathematical Society
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