\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 Minimal Upper Bounds in the Theory of $\Delta^1_3$-degrees}\end{center} \begin{center}{\large Philip Welch}\end{center} \begin{center}{\large Kobe University, Japan}\end{center} \bigskip \large We consider the interaction between core model theory, {\boldmath $\Delta^1_2$}-determinacy and the theory of the $\Delta^1_3$-degrees, (where a degree is an equivalence class in the reducibility ordering ``$r \leq_{\Delta^1_3} s" \Leftrightarrow r \mbox{ (as a set of integers) is a } \Delta^1_3$-relation in the predicate $ s$), establishing a result on minimal upper bounds for countable collections of such degrees.\\ \noindent We prove: \\ \mbox{}\\ \noindent $ ZFC + \mbox{{\boldmath{$\Pi^1_1$}}}\mbox{-determinacy} \vdash$ Either {\boldmath{$\Delta^1_2$}}-determinacy holds, or there is a real $d_0$ so that if $D = \{\mbox{{\boldmath $d_n$}}\}_{n\in \omega}$ is a countable collection of $\Delta^1_3$-degrees above that of $d_0$, then $D$ has a minimal upper bound. \end{document}