Necessary and sufficient condition for strong relativization of higher effective Borel classes

Identify a natural condition that is necessary and sufficient for a real \(f\in N\) to strongly relativize \(\Delta^0_{1+\alpha}\) at Baire space \(N\), for each computable ordinal \(\alpha>0\).

Background

For computable ordinals α>0\alpha>0, the paper proves that Δ1+α0\Delta^0_{1+\alpha}-domination is sufficient for strong relativization at NN, but also constructs reals that strongly relativize Δ1+α0\Delta^0_{1+\alpha} without satisfying this domination condition. Thus the sufficient condition is not necessary, and the paper explicitly leaves open the search for a natural exact characterization.

References

The following is left open. Is there a ``natural'' condition which is necessary and sufficient for strongly relativizing $\Delta0_{1+\alpha}$ at $N$? at $N$?

Strongly relativizing reals  (2608.14488 - Arant, 14 Aug 2026) in Section 4, immediately following Theorem \ref{thm:alphadomnotsuff}