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COMPUTABILITY OF POLISH SPACES UP TO HOMEOMORPHISM

Matthew Harrison‐Trainor, Alexander Melnikov, Keng Meng Ng

2020Journal of Symbolic Logic27 citationsDOI

Abstract

Abstract We study computable Polish spaces and Polish groups up to homeomorphism. We prove a natural effective analogy of Stone duality, and we also develop an effective definability technique which works up to homeomorphism. As an application, we show that there is a $\Delta ^0_2$ Polish space not homeomorphic to a computable one. We apply our techniques to build, for any computable ordinal $\alpha $ , an effectively closed set not homeomorphic to any $0^{(\alpha )}$ -computable Polish space; this answers a question of Nies. We also prove analogous results for compact Polish groups and locally path-connected spaces.

Topics & Concepts

Homeomorphism (graph theory)ComputabilityMathematicsPolish spaceTopological spaceComputable numberComputable analysisSpace (punctuation)Duality (order theory)Pure mathematicsPath (computing)Discrete mathematicsCombinatoricsComputer scienceMathematical analysisProgramming languageSeparable spaceOperating systemComputability, Logic, AI AlgorithmsAdvanced Topology and Set TheoryBenford’s Law and Fraud Detection