English
Related papers

Related papers: Kolmogorov complexity and the Recursion Theorem

200 papers

Kolmogorov complexity theory is used to tell what the algorithmic informational content of a string is. It is defined as the length of the shortest program that describes the string. We present a programming language that can be used to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-06-13 Noson S. Yanofsky

Kolmogorov Complexity constitutes an integral part of computability theory, information theory, and computational complexity theory -- in the discrete setting of bits and Turing machines. Over real numbers, on the other hand, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-03-28 Martin Ziegler , Wouter M. Koolen

Chaitin's incompleteness theorem states that sufficiently rich formal systems cannot prove lower bounds on Kolmogorov complexity. In this paper we extend this theorem by showing theories that prove the Kolmogorov complexity of a large (but…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Samuel Epstein

We study the complexity classes P and NP through a semigroup fP ("polynomial-time functions"), consisting of all polynomially balanced polynomial-time computable partial functions. Then P is not equal to NP iff fP is a non-regular…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-09 J. C. Birget

The halting problem is undecidable --- but can it be solved for "most" inputs? This natural question was considered in a number of papers, in different settings. We revisit their results and show that most of them can be easily proven in a…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-01-11 Laurent Bienvenu , Damien Desfontaines , Alexander Shen

We consider the task of computing functions $f: \mathbb{N}^k\to \mathbb{N}$, where $ \mathbb{N}$ is the set of natural numbers, by finite teams of agents modelled as deterministic finite automata. The computation is carried out in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Debasish Pattanayak , Andrzej Pelc

A generic computation of a subset $A$ of $\mathbb{N}$ is a computation which correctly computes most of the bits of $A$, but which potentially does not halt on all inputs. The motivation for this concept is derived from complexity theory,…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Gregory Igusa

We present a well-structured detailed exposition of a well-known proof of the following celebrated result solving Hilbert's 13th problem on superpositions. For functions of 2 variables the statement is as follows. Kolmogorov Theorem. There…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-24 S. Dzhenzher , A. Skopenkov

Kolmogorov complexity is the length of the ultimately compressed version of a file (that is, anything which can be put in a computer). Formally, it is the length of a shortest program from which the file can be reconstructed. We discuss the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Paul Vitanyi

This paper proposes a Kolmogorov high order deep neural network (K-HOrderDNN) for solving high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs), which improves the high order deep neural networks (HOrderDNNs). HOrderDNNs have been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Yaqin Zhang , Ke Li , Zhipeng Chang , Xuejiao Liu , Yunqing Huang , Xueshuang Xiang

This paper studies the limits of recursive classifications in proof theory and program extraction, using the refined $A$-translation as a central example. The refined $A$-translation, due to Berger, Buchholz, and Schwichtenberg, is based on…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Franziskus Wiesnet

Representing graphs by their homomorphism counts has led to the beautiful theory of homomorphism indistinguishability in recent years. Moreover, homomorphism counts have promising applications in database theory and machine learning, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jan Böker , Louis Härtel , Nina Runde , Tim Seppelt , Christoph Standke

This paper is motivated by a conjecture that BPP can be characterized in terms of polynomial-time nonadaptive reductions to the set of Kolmogorov-random strings. In this paper we show that an approach laid out in [Allender et al] to settle…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Eric Allender , Harry Buhrman , Luke Friedman , Bruno Loff

We define a class of computable functions over real numbers using functional schemes similar to the class of primitive and partial recursive functions defined by G\"odel and Kleene. We show that this class of functions can also be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Keng Meng Ng , Nazanin R. Tavana , Yue Yang

A set C of reals is said to be negligible if there is no probabilistic algorithm which generates a member of C with positive probability. Various classes have been proven to be negligible, for example the Turing upper-cone of a…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-10-19 Laurent Bienvenu , Ludovic Patey

Kolmogorov (1965) defined the complexity of a string $x$ as the minimal length of a program generating $x$. Obviously this definition depends on the choice of the programming language. Kolmogorov noted that there exist \emph{optimal}…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Bruno Bauwens , Alexander Kozachinskiy , Alexander Shen

We call an $\alpha \in \mathbb{R}$ regainingly approximable if there exists a computable nondecreasing sequence $(a_n)_n$ of rational numbers converging to $\alpha$ with $\alpha - a_n < 2^{-n}$ for infinitely many $n \in \mathbb{N}$. We…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Peter Hertling , Rupert Hölzl , Philip Janicki

Tree tensor networks (TTNs) provide a compact and structured representation of high-dimensional data, making them valuable in various areas of computational mathematics and physics. In this paper, we present a rigorous mathematical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Junyuan He , Zhonghao Sun , Jizu Huang

Regular functions from infinite words to infinite words can be equivalently specified by MSO-transducers, streaming $\omega$-string transducers as well as deterministic two-way transducers with look-ahead. In their one-way restriction, the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-19 V. Dave , E. Filiot , S. Krishna , N. Lhote

We introduce and initiate the study of a new model of reductions called the random noise model. In this model, the truth table $T_f$ of the function $f$ is corrupted on a randomly chosen $\delta$-fraction of instances. A randomized…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Tejas Nareddy , Abhishek Mishra