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On Reals with $\Delta^{0}_{2}$-Bounded Complexity and Compressive Power

Logic 2014-10-15 v1

Abstract

The (prefix-free) Kolmogorov complexity of a finite binary string is the length of the shortest description of the string. This gives rise to some `standard' lowness notions for reals: A is K-trivial if its initial segments have the lowest possible complexity and A is low for K if using A as an oracle does not decrease the complexity of strings by more than a constant factor. We weaken these notions by requiring the defining inequalities to hold up only up to all Δ20\Delta^0_2 orders, and call the new notions Δ20\Delta^0_2-bounded K-trivial and Δ20\Delta^0_2-bounded low for K. Several of the `nice' properties of K-triviality are lost with this weakening. For instance, the new weaker definitions both give uncountable set of reals. In this paper we show that the weaker definitions are no longer equivalent, and that the Δ20\Delta^0_2-bounded K-trivials are cofinal in the Turing degrees. We then compare them to other previously studied weakenings, namely infinitely-often K-triviality and weak lowness for K (in each, the defining inequality must hold up to a constant, but only for infinitely many inputs). We show that Δ20\Delta^0_2-bounded K-trivial implies infinitely-often K-trivial, but no implication holds between Δ20\Delta^0_2-bounded low for K and weakly low for K.

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@article{arxiv.1410.3615,
  title  = {On Reals with $\Delta^{0}_{2}$-Bounded Complexity and Compressive Power},
  author = {Ian Herbert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.3615},
  year   = {2014}
}

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25 pages

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