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Rice Theorems For D.R.E. Sets
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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Two of the basic theorems in the classification of index sets of classes of recursively enumerable (r.e.) sets are the following:
(i) The index set of a class C of r.e. sets is recursive if and only if C is empty or contains all r.e. sets; and
(ii) the index set of a class C or r.e. sets is recursively enumerable if and only if C is empty or consists of all r.e. sets which extend some element of a canonically enumerable class of finite sets.
The first theorem is due to Rice [7, p. 364, Corollary B]. The second was conjectured by Rice [7, p. 361] and proved independently by McNaughton, Shapiro, and Myhill [6].
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