The Possible Turing Degree of the Nonzero Member in a Two Element Degree Spectrum

Abstract We construct a recursive model A , a recursive subset R of its domain, and a (nonzero) Turing degree x ⩽ 00 satisfying the following condition. The nonrecursive images of R under all isomorphisms from A to other recursive models are of Turing degree x and cannot be recursively enumerable.