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Topological arguments for Kolmogorov complexity

Discrete Mathematics 2015-01-27 v3 Computational Complexity Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

We present several application of simple topological arguments in problems of Kolmogorov complexity. Basically we use the standard fact from topology that the disk is simply connected. It proves to be enough to construct strings with some nontrivial algorithmic properties.

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@article{arxiv.1206.4927,
  title  = {Topological arguments for Kolmogorov complexity},
  author = {Alexander Shen and Andrei Romashchenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.4927},
  year   = {2015}
}

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