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Relations between randomness deficiencies

Logic 2016-08-31 v1

Abstract

The notion of random sequence was introduced by Martin-Loef in 1966. At the same time he defined the so-called randomness deficiency function that shows how close are random sequences to non-random (in some natural sense). Other deficiency functions can be obtained from the Levin-Schnorr theorem, that describes randomness in terms of Kolmogorov complexity. The difference between all of these deficiencies is bounded by a logarithmic term. In this paper we show that the difference between some deficiencies can be as large as possible.

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@article{arxiv.1608.08246,
  title  = {Relations between randomness deficiencies},
  author = {Gleb Novikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.08246},
  year   = {2016}
}
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