Computable embeddability for algebraic structures

Abstract

In computability theory, the standard tool to classify preorders is provided by the computable reducibility. If [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are preorders with domain [Formula: see text], then [Formula: see text] is computably reducible to [Formula: see text] if and only if there is a computable function [Formula: see text] such that for all [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]. We study the complexity of preorders which arise in a natural way in computable structure theory. We prove that the relation of computable isomorphic embeddability among computable torsion abelian groups is a [Formula: see text] complete preorder. A similar result is obtained for computable distributive lattices. We show that the relation of primitive recursive embeddability among punctual structures (in the setting of Kalimullin et al.) is a [Formula: see text] complete preorder.