On the computational properties of basic mathematical notions
Abstract
We investigate the computational properties of basic mathematical notions pertaining to -functions and subsets of , like finiteness, countability, (absolute) continuity, bounded variation, suprema, and regularity. We work in higher-order computability theory based on Kleene's S1-S9 schemes. We show that the aforementioned italicised properties give rise to two huge and robust classes of computationally equivalent operations, the latter based on well-known theorems from the mainstream mathematics literature. As part of this endeavour, we develop an equivalent -calculus formulation of S1-S9 that accommodates partial objects. We show that the latter are essential to our enterprise via the study of countably based and partial functionals of type .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2203.05250,
title = {On the computational properties of basic mathematical notions},
author = {Dag Normann and Sam Sanders},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.05250},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
The lambda calculus introduced in Section 3 of this paper unfortunately suffers from a technical error. The latter was communicated to us in a private communication by John Longley. A corrected version may be found in Section 5 of arXiv:2401.09053. The computability theoretic results in this paper remain unaffected