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On the concept of $\boldsymbol {\Pi }^1_1$ -completeness

Author(s): Alexander S. Kechris
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 1811-1814.
MSC (1991): Primary 03E15, 04A15, 28A05, 54H05
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Abstract: It is shown that two natural notions of completeness for co-analytic sets in Polish spaces, one in terms of continuous reductions and the other in terms of Borel reductions, coincide. The proof uses methods of effective descriptive set theory.

References:

1.: L. Harrington and A. S. Kechris, On the determinacy of games on ordinals, Ann. Math. Logic 20 (1981), 109-154. MR 83c:03044
2.: A. S. Kechris, Classical Descriptive Set Theory, Graduate Texts in Math., vol. 156, Springer-Verlag, 1995.

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Alexander S. Kechris
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics 253-37, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125
Email: kechris@math.caltech.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03770-2
PII: S 0002-9939(97)03770-2
Received by editor(s): October 2, 1995
Received by editor(s) in revised form: January 15, 1996
Additional Notes: The author's research was partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-9317509.
Communicated by: Andreas R. Blass
Copyright of article: Copyright 1997, American Mathematical Society


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