The theory of the metarecursively enumerable degrees

Abstract. Sacks [Sa1966a] asks if the metarecursivley enumerable degrees are elementarily equivalent to the r.e. degrees. In unpublished work, Slaman and Shore proved that they are not. This paper provides a simpler proof of that result and characterizes the degree of the theory as O (ω) or, equivalently, that of the truth set of L ω C