\documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{amssymb} \pagestyle{empty} \hoffset=-40pt \voffset=-20pt \textwidth 15.3cm \textheight 22cm % to fit our printers \begin{document} \begin{center}{\huge Recursive infinitary formulas}\end{center} \begin{center}{\large Julia Knight}\end{center} \begin{center}{\large University of Notre Dame}\end{center} \bigskip Roughly speaking, {\it recursive infinitary} formulas are formulas of $L_{\omega_1\omega}$ in which the infinite disjunctions and conjunctions are over r.e. sets. All together, the recursive infinitary formulas have the same expressive power as the {\it hyperarithmetical} formulas. However, recursive infinitary formulas form natural hierarchies corresponding to certain measures of recursive complexity. Definability by an appropriate recursive infinitary formula explains why, for example, in recursive copies of a given structure, the image of a certain relation always is $\sum^0_3$, or always $3$-r.e., or why, anytime the image of one relation is $\sum^0_3$, the image of another relation must be $\sum^0_5$, etc. \end{document}