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According to the Kolmogorovian Censorship Hypothesis, everything that quantum theory says about the world in the language of the quantum mechanical Hilbert space formalism is actually about relationships between ordinary relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Laszlo E. Szabo , Marton Gomori , Zalan Gyenis

We present a new approach to formal language theory using Kolmogorov complexity. The main results presented here are an alternative for pumping lemma(s), a new characterization for regular languages, and a new method to separate…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ming Li , Paul Vitanyi

In classical physics, the Kolmogorov extension theorem lays the foundation for the theory of stochastic processes. It has been known for a long time that, in its original form, this theorem does not hold in quantum mechanics. More…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Simon Milz , Fattah Sakuldee , Felix A. Pollock , Kavan Modi

The Daniell-Kolmogorov Extension Theorem is a fundamental result in the theory of stochastic processes, as it allows one to construct a stochastic process with prescribed finite-dimensional distributions. However, it is well-known that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-20 Alexander Erreygers , Jasper De Bock

We establish diverse relationships between the algorithmic (Kolmogorov) complexity of the prefixes of any binary expansion and $\beta$-expansions. These relationships allow to develop intuitions on the complexity behavior of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Valentin Abadie , Helmut Boelcskei

D. Krieger and J. Shallit have proved that every real number greater than 1 is a critical exponent of some sequence. We show how this result can be derived from some general statements about sequences whose subsequences have (almost)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-09-28 Andrey Rumyantsev

This paper develops an information-theoretic framework for algorithmic complexity under regular identifiable fibering. The central question is: when a decoder is given information about the fiber label in a fibered geometric set, how much…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Nicholas G. Polson , Daniel Zantedeschi

We consolidate two widely believed conjectures about tautologies -- no optimal proof system exists, and most require superpolynomial size proofs in any system -- into a $p$-isomorphism-invariant condition satisfied by all paddable…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Hunter Monroe

Under correlation-type conditions, we derive an upper bound of order $(\log n)/n$ for the average Kolmogorov distance between the distributions of weighted sums of dependent summands and the normal law. The result is based on improved…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-24 S. G. Bobkov , G. P. Chistyakov , F. Götze

A real number is called left-computable if there exists a computable increasing sequence of rational numbers converging to it. In this article we investigate the Kolmogorov complexity and the binary expansions of a very specific subset of…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Peter Hertling , Philip Janicki

This paper proposes new notions of polynomial depth (called monotone poly depth), based on a polynomial version of monotone Kolmogorov complexity. We show that monotone poly depth satisfies all desirable properties of depth notions i.e.,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Philippe Moser

The paper is a brief informal introduction to C*-algebraic foundations of causal contextual subquantum theories. In particular, it is explained how the contextuality property (which is a necessary consistency condition of all causal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Micho Durdevich

We study in which way Kolmogorov complexity and instance complexity affect properties of r.e. sets. We show that the well-known 2log n upper bound on the Kolmogorov complexity of initial segments of r.e.\ sets is optimal and characterize…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Martin Kummer

Probabilistic models require the notion of event space for defining a probability measure. An event space has a probability measure which ensues the Kolmogorov axioms. However, the probabilities observed from distinct sources, such as that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-03-13 Massimo Melucci

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

Depth of an object concerns a tradeoff between computation time and excess of program length over the shortest program length required to obtain the object. It gives an unconditional lower bound on the computation time from a given program…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-09-16 Luis Antunes , Armando Matos , Andre Souto , Paul Vitanyi

We give a new proof for Godel's second incompleteness theorem, based on Kolmogorov complexity, Chaitin's incompleteness theorem, and an argument that resembles the surprise examination paradox. We then go the other way around and suggest…

Logic · Mathematics 2010-11-24 Shira Kritchman , Ran Raz

We establish new sufficient conditions for the applicability of the strong law of large numbers (SLLN) for sequences of pairwise independent non-identically distributed random variables. These results generalize Etemadi's extension of…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Valery Korchevsky

The main goal of this article is to put some known results in a common perspective and to simplify their proofs. We start with a simple proof of a result of Vereshchagin saying that $\limsup_n C(x|n)$ equals $C^{0'}(x)$. Then we use the…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Laurent Bienvenu , Andrej Muchnik , Alexander Shen , Nikolai Vereshchagin

While Kolmogorov's probability axioms are widely recognized, it is less well known that in an often-overlooked 1930 note, Kolmogorov proposed an axiomatic framework for a unifying concept of the mean -- referred to as regular means. This…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Miguel de Carvalho