Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
437433 Theoretical Computer Science 2011 17 Pages PDF
Abstract

It has been previously observed that for many TxtEx-learnable computable families of computably enumerable (c.e. for short) sets all their computable numberings are evidently -equivalent, i.e. are equivalent with respect to reductions computable in the halting problem. We show that this holds for all TxtEx-learnable computable families of c.e. sets, and prove that, in general, the converse is not true. In fact there is a computable family A of c.e. sets such that all computable numberings of A are computably equivalent and A is not TxtEx-learnable. Moreover, we construct a computable family of c.e. sets which is not TxtBC-learnable though all of its computable numberings are -equivalent. We also give a natural example of a computable TxtBC-learnable family of c.e. sets which possesses non--equivalent computable numberings. So, for the computable families of c.e. sets, the properties of TxtBC-learnability and -equivalence of all computable numberings are independent.

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