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Effective categoricity of equivalence structures. (English) Zbl 1103.03037
In the paper under review, the authors study effective categoricity of computable equivalence structures. A structure $${\mathcal A}=\{A;E^{{\mathcal A}}\}$$ is an equivalence structure, if it consists of a set $$A$$ with a binary relation $$E^{{\mathcal A}}$$ that is reflexive, symmetric, and transitive. It is proved that such a structure $${\mathcal A}$$ is computably categorical if and only if $${\mathcal A}$$ has only finitely many finite equivalence classes, or $${\mathcal A}$$ has only finitely many infinite classes, bounded character, and at most one finite $$k$$ such that there are infinitely many classes of size $$k$$. ($${\mathcal A}$$ has bounded character if there is some finite $$k$$ such that all finite equivalence classes of $${\mathcal A}$$ have size at most $$k$$). It is also proved that all computably categorical structures have computably enumerable Scott families of existential formulas. The authors also characterize relatively $$\Delta_2^0$$-categorical equivalence structures and study the complexity of isomorphisms for stuctures $${\mathcal A}$$ and $${\mathcal B}$$ such that both Fin$$^A$$ and Fin$$^B$$ are computable, or $$\Delta_2^0$$. Here, by definition, $$\text{Fin}^A=\{a:[a]^{{\mathcal A}} \text{ is finite}\}$$, and $$[a]^{{\mathcal A}}=\{x\in A: xE^{{\mathcal A}}a\}$$.

##### MSC:
 03C57 Computable structure theory, computable model theory
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