Recursion on the Countable Functionals

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811 II

IIIII

Dag Normann

Recursion on the Countable Functionals

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York 1980

Author Dag Normann Institute of Mathematics, The University of Oslo Box 1053 Blindern Oslo 3 Norway

A M S Subject Classifications (1980): 03 D 6 5 ISBN 3-540-10019-9 ISBN 0-387-10019-9

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg NewYork Springer-Verlag NewYork Heidelberg Berlin

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data. Normann, Dag, 1947- Recursion on the countable functionals. (Lecture notes in mathematics; 811)Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Recursiontheory. 2. Computable functions. I. Title. II. Series: Lecture notes in mathematics (Berlin); 8tl. QA3.L28 no. 811.[QA96] 510s [511.3]80-19391 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically those of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, broadcasting, reproduction by photocopying machine or similar means, and storage in data banks. Under § 54 of the German Copyright Law where copies are made for other than private use, a fee is payable to the publisher, the amount of the fee to be determined by agreement with the publisher. © by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1980 Printed in Germany Printing and binding: Beltz Offsetdruck, Hemsbach/Bergstr. 2141/3140-543210

Introduction Generalized w~ich has

been

reeursion rapidly

theory

growing

now r e c o g n i z e d

as a d i c i p l i n e

to the natural

numbers

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order that

in order

one quite

torial

proof

ralized

cal proofs and much classical

concerning

is not

reason and

just

One attempt

the fifties.

Much

finite

als

types

has

strong

been c o n c e r n e d

above.

follows

Kleene

isolated

some of the

in a finite

putation

a subclass

but

mation

about

the f u n o t i o n a l s

closed

under

recursion.

during

that he gave

an import-

general

computation relative

setting.

theory

of h i g h e r

if one wants

recursion

f u n c t i on a l s

recursion

be infinite

funetionals subclass

theory;

may have

from a finite

Kieene

normal

function-

of the g e n e r a l

will

showed

for

to c e r t a i n

for h y p e r d r i t h m e t i c

subbranch

is d e c i d a b l e involved.

by Kleene

theory

of o r d i n a r y

of c o u n t a b l e

the notions

the a l g o r i t h m s

so-called

It is a natural

the value

the motiva-

in the

computations

of the

is to look at

Then

in a more

of g e n e r a l i z e d

of his

numbers,

of arbi-

computations

of the

in gene-

of classi-

on which

done

is

combina-

on f u n c t i o n a l s

on Kleene's

the patterns

finiteness

sequence

tree

with

was

recognized

a successful

In p a r t i c u l a r

funetionals.

done

and

understanding

theory

domains

theory

in

on the natural

and to find what

operating

for r e c u r s i o n

has been

sense.

countable serve

that has been

of the proofs

domains.

of a c o m p u t a t i o n

is a g e n e r a l i z a t i o n

and the r e s e a r c h described