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A jump operator on the Weihrauch degrees
A partial order admits a jump operator if there is a map that is strictly increasing and weakly monotone. Despite its name, the
jump in the Weihrauch lattice fails to satisfy both of these properties: it is
not degree-theoretic and there are functions such that
. This raises the question: is there a jump operator
in the Weihrauch lattice? We answer this question positively and provide an
explicit definition for an operator on partial multi-valued functions that,
when lifted to the Weihrauch degrees, induces a jump operator. This new
operator, called the totalizing jump, can be characterized in terms of the
total continuation, a well-known operator on computational problems. The
totalizing jump induces an injective endomorphism of the Weihrauch degrees. We
study some algebraic properties of the totalizing jump and characterize its
behavior on some pivotal problems in the Weihrauch lattice