Abstract.
Various results in different
areas of Computability Theory are proved.
First we work with the Turing degree structure, proving some
embeddablity and decidability results. To cite a few: we show that
every countable upper semilattice containing a jump operation can be
embedded into the Turing degrees, of course, preserving jump and
join; we show that every finite partial ordering labeled with the
classes in the generalized high/low hierarchy can be embedded into the
Turing degrees; we show that every generalized high degree has
the complementation property; and we show that if a Turing degree a is either
1-generic and delta-zero-one, 2-generic and arithmetic, n-REA, or arithmetically generic,
then the theory of the partial ordering of the Turing degrees below a is
recursively isomorphic to true first order arithmetic.
Second, we work with equimorphism types of linear orderings from
the viewpoints of Computable Mathematics and Reverse Mathematics. (Two
linear orderings are equimorphic if they can be embedded in each
other.) Spector proved in 1955 that every hyperarithmetic ordinal is
isomorphic to a recursive one. We extend his result and prove that
every hyperarithmetic linear ordering is equimorphic to a recursive
one. From the viewpoint of Reverse Mathematics, we look at the strength
of Fraïssé's conjecture. From our results, we deduce
that Fraïssé's conjecture is sufficient and necessary to
develop a reasonable theory of equimorphism types of linear orderings.
Other topics we include in this thesis are the following: we look at
structures for which Arithmetic Transfinite Recursion is the natural
system to study them; we study theories of hyperarithmetic analysis and
present a new natural example; we look at the complexity of the
elementary equivalence problem for Boolean algebras; and we prove that
there is a minimal pair of Kolmogorov-degrees.