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The Ziegler degrees were introduced to characterize definability in group theory. In [JLSta], the authors show that the first order-theory of the Ziegler degrees (as a partial order) is undecidable. We improve this result, showing that the theory of the Ziegler degrees is bi-interpretable with true second-order arithmetic.
Given a countable Turing ideal $\mathcal{I} \subseteq \omega^{\omega}$, we say that $x$ is a list (resp. weak list) of $\mathcal{I}$ if $\mathcal{I}=\{x^{[n]} : n \in \omega\}$ (resp. if $\mathcal{I} \subseteq \{x^{[n]} :n \in \omega\}$). We show that, for several natural ideals $\mathcal{I}$, $x$ computes a list of $\mathcal{I}$ if and only if it computes a function dominating all the functions in $\mathcal{I}$. On the other hand, we provide reals which are $\mathsf{HYP}$-strongly null engulfing (and hence $\mathsf{HYP}$-dominating, by results of Greenberg, Kuyper and Turetsky) but which cannot compute a weak list for $\mathsf{HYP}$, solving a problem left open in a recent paper by Greenberg and the second author. This result can be generalized to any countable ideal which is downward closed under $\leq_{\mathsf{HYP}}$. We also give a characterization of reals which compute a list of $\mathsf{HYP}$: $x$ computes a list of $\mathsf{HYP}$ if and only if $x$ is $\mathsf{HYP}$-dominating and $\mathcal{O}$ is $\Sigma^0_2(x)$.