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Computability of probability measures and Martin-Lof randomness over metric spaces

Information Theory 2008-07-23 v2 math.IT

Abstract

In this paper we investigate algorithmic randomness on more general spaces than the Cantor space, namely computable metric spaces. To do this, we first develop a unified framework allowing computations with probability measures. We show that any computable metric space with a computable probability measure is isomorphic to the Cantor space in a computable and measure-theoretic sense. We show that any computable metric space admits a universal uniform randomness test (without further assumption).

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@article{arxiv.0709.0907,
  title  = {Computability of probability measures and Martin-Lof randomness over metric spaces},
  author = {Mathieu Hoyrup and Cristobal Rojas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.0907},
  year   = {2008}
}

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29 pages