\documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{amssymb} \pagestyle{empty} \hoffset=-40pt \voffset=-20pt \textwidth 15.3cm \textheight 22cm % to fit our printers \newcommand{\boldL}{\mbox{\bf L}} \newcommand{\boldH}{\mbox{\bf H}} \newcommand{\low}[1]{\mbox{\boldL$_{#1}$}} \newcommand{\high}[1]{\mbox{\boldH$_{#1}$}} \newcommand{\lowbar}[1]{\mbox{$\overline{\boldL}_{#1}$}} \newcommand{\highbar}[1]{\mbox{$\overline{\boldH}_{#1}$}} \begin{document} \begin{center}{\huge Martin's Invariance Conjecture and Low Sets}\end{center} \medskip \begin{center}{\large Leo Harrington (University of California, Berkeley)\\ and\\ Robert I. Soare (University of Chicago)}\end{center} \bigskip A class of degrees of computably enumerable (c.e.) sets is {\em invariant} if it is the set of degrees of some class of c.e. sets invariant under automorphisms of $\mathcal{E}$, the c.e. sets under inclusion. For example, Martin proved that \high{1}, the high$_1$ degrees, are invariant, being the degrees of maximal sets. Lachlan and Shoenfield proved that \lowbar{2}, the complement of the low$_2$ degrees are invariant, being the degrees of atomless sets. These results and his work at the time on projective determinacy led Martin to make the following conjecture. \medskip \noindent {\bf Conjecture 1.1 (Martin's Invariance Conjecture)} {\em Among all the jump classes $\high{n}$ and $\low{n}$ for $n>0$, and their complements \highbar{n} and \lowbar{n}, the invariant classes are exactly \high{2n-1} and \lowbar{2n}.} \medskip After some previous results in favor of Martin's conjecture, researchers looked particularly at \lowbar{1} because of the important role played by low$_1$ sets in the subject and some attempted unsuccessfully to find a property defining \lowbar{1} analagous to \lowbar{2}. Harrington and Soare now prove noninvariance of \lowbar{1}, and supply other evidence for the Martin conjecture. \medskip \noindent {\bf Theorem 1.2 (Harrington and Soare)} {\em There is a low$_2$ nonlow$_1$ c.e.\ set $D$ such that every c.e.\ set $A\leq_{\rm T} D$ is automorphic to a low$_1$ set $B$. Hence, $\lowbar{1}$ is noninvariant.} \end{document}