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An intense effort is being made today to build a quantum computer. Instead of presenting what has been achieved, I invoke here analogies from the history of science in an attempt to glimpse what the future might hold. Quantum computing is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 G. S. Paraoanu

We discuss the computational complexity and feasibility properties of scenario based techniques for uncertain optimization programs. We consider different solution alternatives ranging from the standard scenario approach to recursive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Nikolaos Kariotoglou , Kostas Margellos , John Lygeros

The purpose of this article is to delve into the properties of invariants. The properties, explained in [2], reveal new ways to develop algorithms that allow us to test the primality of a number. In this article, some of these are shown,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Juan Hernandez-Toro

Infinite time Turing machines extend the operation of ordinary Turing machines into transfinite ordinal time. By doing so, they provide a natural model of infinitary computability, a theoretical setting for the analysis of the power and…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel David Hamkins

Empirical studies have identified a range of learnability biases and limitations of transformers, such as a persistent difficulty in learning to compute simple formal languages such as PARITY, and a bias towards low-degree functions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Michael Hahn , Mark Rofin

This paper describes the formal verification of two Turing machines using the program verifier Dafny. Both machines are deciders, so we prove total correctness. They are typical first examples of Turing machines used in any course of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Edgar F. A. Lederer

The input/output complexity, which is the complexity of data exchange between the main memory and the external memory, has been elaborately studied by a lot of former researchers. However, the existing works failed to consider the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Hengzhao Ma , Jianzhong Li , Xiangyu Gao , Tianpeng Gao

The notion of quantum Turing machines is a basis of quantum complexity theory. We discuss a general model of multi-tape, multi-head Quantum Turing machines with multi final states that also allow tape heads to stay still.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomoyuki Yamakami

We initiate the computability-theoretic study of ringed spaces and schemes. In particular, we show that any Turing degree may occur as the least degree of an isomorphic copy of a structure of these kinds. We also show that these structures…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Wesley Calvert , Valentina Harizanov , Alexandra Shlapentokh

Infinite time Turing machines are extended in several ways to allow for iterated oracle calls. The expressive power of these machines is discussed and in some cases determined.

Logic · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Robert Lubarsky

Computability on uncountable sets has no standard formalization, unlike that on countable sets, which is given by Turing machines. Some of the approaches to define computability in these sets rely on order-theoretic structures to translate…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Pedro Hack , Daniel A. Braun , Sebastian Gottwald

This paper provides a new and more direct proof of the assertion that a Turing computable function of the natural numbers is primitive recursive if and only if the time complexity of the corresponding Turing machine is bounded by a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Daniel G. Schwartz

The last few years has seen a growing debate about techniques for managing uncertainty in AI systems. Unfortunately this debate has been cast as a rivalry between AI methods and classical probability based ones. Three arguments for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-15 John Fox

Taking the view that computation is after all physical, we argue that physics, particularly quantum physics, could help extend the notion of computability. Here, we list the important and unique features of quantum mechanics and then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tien D Kieu

The benchmark for computation is typically given as Turing computability; the ability for a computation to be performed by a Turing Machine. Many languages exploit (indirect) encodings of Turing Machines to demonstrate their ability to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Thomas Given-Wilson

We start by an introduction to the basic concepts of computability theory and the introduction of the concept of Turing machine and computation universality. Then se turn to the exploration of trade-offs between different measures of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Joost J. Joosten , Fernando Soler-Toscano , Hector Zenil

A variant of Turing machines is introduced where the tape is replaced by a single tree which can be manipulated in a style akin to purely functional programming. This yields two benefits: first, the extra structure on the tape can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Arnaud Spiwack

We outline the construction of a molecular system that could, in principle, implement a thermodynamically reversible Universal Turing Machine (UTM). By proposing a concrete-albeit idealised-design and operational protocol, we reveal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-09 Rory A. Brittain , Nick S. Jones , Thomas E. Ouldridge

Finite Turing computation has a fundamental symmetry between inputs, outputs, programs, time, and storage space. Standard models of transfinite computational break this symmetry; we consider ways to recover it and study the resulting model…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Lorenzo Galeotti , Ethan S. Lewis , Benedikt Löwe

This paper discusses "computational" systems capable of "computing" functions not computable by predefined Turing machines if the systems are not isolated from their environment. Roughly speaking, these systems can change their finite…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-08-03 Kurt Ammon