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Complexity of Computably Enumerable Sets

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In this section, we look at the initial segment complexity of c.e. sets, including a fascinating gap phenomenon uncovered by Kummer [226]. We begin with an old result of Barzdins [29].

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Downey, R.G., Hirschfeldt, D.R. (2010). Complexity of Computably Enumerable Sets. In: Algorithmic Randomness and Complexity. Theory and Applications of Computability. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68441-3_16

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