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An everywhere-total functional has a computable use bound

Statement

Let Γ be an oracle functional which is total, with a natural-number output, on every oracle. There is a total computable b:NN such that for every n and every oracle X, the computation ΓX(n) halts after querying only numbers below b(n).

Facts & Assumptions

Given: an everywhere-total natural-valued oracle functional Γ.

Proof

technique · contradiction
1.1

For fixed n, effectively search for length m and time t such that every binary string σ of length m makes Γσ(n) halt by t without querying outside m.

givenconstruct
2.1

If this search never succeeded, the finitely branching tree of strings whose finite-oracle simulation has not supplied such a transcript would have nodes at every length. König's lemma yields an infinite oracle on which Γ(n) never halts, contradicting totality.

step 1.1assume-contra
3.1

Therefore the search halts; let b(n) be its first successful length. The finite exhaustive test makes b computable, and its defining property forces every oracle computation on n to use only positions below b(n).

step 1.1step 2.1discharge-contradiction

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