A theorem on hyperhypersimple sets

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1943-5886|28|4|273-278

ISSN: 0022-4812

Source: The Journal of Symbolic Logic, Vol.28, Iss.4, 1963-12, pp. : 273-278

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Abstract

Let be the class of recursively enumerable (r.e.) sets with infinite complements. A set M ϵ is maximal if every superset of M which is in is only finitely different from M. In [1] Friedberg shows that maximal sets exist, and it is an easy consequence of this fact that every non-simple set in has a maximal superset. The natural question which arises is whether or not this is also true for every simple set (Ullian [2]). In the present paper this question is answered negatively. However, the main concern of this paper is with demonstrating, and developing a few consequences of, what might be called the “density” of hyperhypersimple sets.