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 . 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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First version (01/08/2012)