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NeuroCOLT Technical Report NC-TR-99-052

The Turing Closure of an Archimedean Field

Paolo Boldi & Sebastiano Vigna
Università degli Studi di Milano

Received: 21-JAN-2000


Abstract
A BSS machine is *-uniform if it does not use exact tests; such machines are equivalent (modulo parameters) to Type 2 Turing machines. We define a notion of closure related to Turing machines for Archimedean fields, and show that such fields admit nontrivial *- uniformly decidable sets if they are not Turing closed. Then, the partially ordered set of Turing closed fields is proved isomorphic to the ideal completion of unsolvability degrees.

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