We characterize the structure of computably categorical trees of
finite height, and prove that our criterion is both necessary and
sufficient. Intuitively, the characterization is easiest to express
in terms of isomorphisms of (possibly infinite) trees, but in fact it
is equivalent to a Σ03-condition. We show that all trees
which are not computably categorical have computable dimension
ω. Finally, we prove that for every n≥ 1 in ω,
there exists a computable tree of finite height which is
δ0n+1-categorical but not δ0n-categorical.
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