Effective Wadge Hierarchy in Computable Quasi-Polish Spaces

We define and study an effective version of the Wadge hierarchy in computable quasi-Polish spaces which include most spaces of interest for computable analysis. Along with hierarchies of sets we study hierarchies of k-partitions which are interesting on their own. We show that levels of such hierarchies are preserved by the computable effectively open surjections, that if the effective Hausdorff-Kuratowski theorem holds in the Baire space then it holds in every computable quasi-Polish space, and we extend the effective Hausdorff theorem to k-partitions

Well Quasiorders and Hierarchy Theory

We discuss some applications of WQOs to several fields were hierarchies and reducibilities are the principal classification tools, notably to Descriptive Set Theory, Computability theory and Automata Theory. While the classical hierarchies of sets usually degenerate to structures very close to ordinals, the extension of them to functions requires more complicated WQOs, and the same applies to reducibilities. We survey some results obtained so far and discuss open problems and possible research directions.Comment: 37 page

A Q-Wadge Hierarchy in Quasi-Polish Spaces

The Wadge hierarchy was originally defined and studied only in the Baire space (and some other zero-dimensional spaces). We extend it here to arbitrary topological spaces by providing a set-theoretic definition of all its levels. We show that our extension behaves well in second countable spaces and especially in quasi-Polish spaces. In particular, all levels are preserved by continuous open surjections between second countable spaces which implies e.g. several Hausdorff-Kuratowski-type theorems in quasi-Polish spaces. In fact, many results hold not only for the Wadge hierarchy of sets but also for its extension to Borel functions from a space to a countable better quasiorder Q