Myhill isomorphism theorem
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 and .
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, John (1955), "Creative sets", Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik, 1: 97–108, doi:10.1002/malq.19550010205, MR 0071379.
- Rogers, Hartley, Jr. (1987), Theory of recursive functions and effective computability (2nd ed.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-68052-1, MR 886890.