Parameter Definable Subsets of the Computably Enumerable Degrees

We prove definability results for the structure R T of computably enumerable Turing degrees. Some of the results can be viewed as approximations to an affirmative answer for the biinterpretability conjecture in parameters for. For instance, all uniformly computably enumerable sets of nonzero c.e. Turing degrees can be defined from parameters by a fixed formula. This implies that the finite subsets are uniformly definable. As a consequence we obtain a new ;-definable ideal, and all arithmetical ideals are parameter definable. 1 Introduction Let R T denote the upper semilattice of computably enumerable (c.e.) Turing degrees. We are concerned with definability results in R T which can be viewed as approximations to the biinterpretability conjecture for R T . The biinterpretability conjecture in parameters for an arithmetical structure A (in brief, BI-conjecture) states that there is a parameter defined copy M of (N; +; \Theta) and a parameter definable 1-1 map f : M 7! A. This h..