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Myhill isomorphism theorem

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In computability theory the Myhill isomorphism theorem, named after John Myhill, provides a characterization for two numberings to induce the same notion of computability on a set.

Myhill isomorphism theorem

Sets A and B of natural numbers are said to be recursively isomorphic if there is a total computable bijection f from the set of natural numbers to itself such that f(A) = B.

A set A of natural numbers is said to be one-one reducible to a set B if there is a total computable injection f on the natural numbers such that f ( A ) B and f ( N A ) N B .

Myhill's isomorphism theorem states that two sets A and B of natural numbers are recursively isomorphic if and only if A is one-reducible to B and B is one-reducible to A. The theorem is proved by an effective version of the argument used for the Schroeder–Bernstein theorem.

A corollary of Myhill's theorem is that two total numberings are one-equivalent if and only if they are computably isomorphic.

References

Myhill isomorphism theorem Wikipedia