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[Kechris, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 1975] showed that there exists a largest Pi_1^1 set of measure 0. An explicit construction of this largest Pi_1^1 nullset has later been given in [Hjorth and Nies, J. London Math. Soc. 2007]. Due to its universal nature, it was conjectured by many that this nullset has a high Borel rank (the question is explicitely mentioned by Chong and Yu, and in [Yu, Fund. Math. 2011]). In this paper, we refute this conjecture and show that this nullset is merely Sigma_3^0. Together with a result of Liang Yu, our result also implies that the exact Borel complexity of this set is Sigma_3^0. To do this proof, we develop the machinery of effective randomness and effective Solovay genericity, investigating the connections between those notions and effective domination properties.
@InProceedings{monin:LIPIcs.STACS.2014.566,
author = {Monin, Benoit},
title = {{Higher randomness and forcing with closed sets}},
booktitle = {31st International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2014)},
pages = {566--577},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-939897-65-1},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2014},
volume = {25},
editor = {Mayr, Ernst W. and Portier, Natacha},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2014.566},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-44883},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2014.566},
annote = {Keywords: Effective descriptive set theory, Higher computability, Effective randomness, Genericity}
}