On a Conjecture of Kleene and Post

S. Barry Cooper · Mathematical logic quarterly · 2001

A proof is given that 0′ (the argest Turing degree containing a computably enumerable set) is definable in the structure of the degrees of unsolvability. This answers a long-standing question of Kleene and Post, and has a number of corollaries including the definability of the jump operator.

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