Minimal covers in the Weihrauch degrees

Steffen Lempp, Joseph S. Miller, Arno Pauly, Mariya I. Soskova, Manlio Valenti

In this paper, we study the existence of minimal covers and strong minimal covers in the Weihrauch degrees. We characterize when a problem $f$ is a minimal cover or strong minimal cover of a problem $h$. We show that strong minimal covers only exist in the cone below $\mathsf{id}$ and that the Weihrauch lattice above $\mathsf{id}$ is dense. From this, we conclude that the degree of $\mathsf{id}$ is first-order definable in the Weihrauch degrees and that the first-order theory of the Weihrauch degrees is computably isomorphic to third-order arithmetic.

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