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Descriptive Complexity of Computable Sequences Revisited

Logic 2019-02-05 v1

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to answer two questions left open in [B. Durand, A. Shen, and N. Vereshchagin, Descriptive Complexity of Computable Sequences, Theoretical Computer Science 171 (2001), pp. 47--58]. Namely, we consider the following two complexities of an infinite computable 0-1-sequence α\alpha: C0(α)C^{0'}(\alpha ), defined as the minimal length of a program with oracle 00' that prints α\alpha, and M(α)M_{\infty}(\alpha), defined as lim infC(α1:nn)\liminf C(\alpha_{1:n}|n), where α1:n\alpha_{1:n} denotes the length-nn prefix of α\alpha and C(xy)C(x|y) stands for conditional Kolmogorov complexity. We show that C0(α)M(α)+O(1)C^{0'}(\alpha )\le M_{\infty}(\alpha)+O(1) and M(α)M_{\infty}(\alpha) is not bounded by any computable function of C0(α)C^{0'}(\alpha ), even on the domain of computable sequences.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1902.01279,
  title  = {Descriptive Complexity of Computable Sequences Revisited},
  author = {Nikolay Vereshchagin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.01279},
  year   = {2019}
}
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