Arithmetic Reducibility and Degrees
Arithmetical reducibility is an intermediate notion between Turing reducibility and hyperarithmetic reducibility.
A set is arithmetical (also arithmetic and arithmetically definable) if it is defined by some formula in the language of Peano arithmetic. Equivalently X is arithmetical if X is or for some integer n. A set X is arithmetical in a set Y, denoted, if X is definable a some formula in the language of Peano arithmetic extended by a predicate for membership in Y. Equivalently, X is arithmetical in Y if X is in or for some integer n. A synonym for is: X is arithmetically reducible to Y.
The relation is reflexive and transitive, and thus the relation defined by the rule
is an equivalence relation. The equivalence classes of this relation are called the arithmetic degrees; they are partially ordered under .
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