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Computability of the entropy of one-tape Turing Machines

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2013-02-06 v1 Computational Complexity Information Theory Dynamical Systems math.IT

Abstract

We prove that the maximum speed and the entropy of a one-tape Turing machine are computable, in the sense that we can approximate them to any given precision ϵ\epsilon. This is contrary to popular belief, as all dynamical properties are usually undecidable for Turing machines. The result is quite specific to one-tape Turing machines, as it is not true anymore for two-tape Turing machines by the results of Blondel et al., and uses the approach of crossing sequences introduced by Hennie.

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@article{arxiv.1302.1170,
  title  = {Computability of the entropy of one-tape Turing Machines},
  author = {Emmanuel Jeandel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.1170},
  year   = {2013}
}

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