Kleene–Post incomparability theorem

ID: kleene-post-incomparability-theorem

There are incomparable Turing degrees strictly between the computable degree and the degree of the diagonal halting set. An oracle-assisted finite-extension construction alternately defeats each Turing functional in the two directions. Since the sets are computable in the halting oracle, their degrees are at most ; incomparability makes them nonzero and strictly below . This theorem does not require the constructed sets to be computably enumerable. The Friedberg–Muchnik theorem supplies that stronger conclusion.

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