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Muchnik's theorem about simple conditional descriprion states that for all words $a$ and $b$ there exists a short program $p$ transforming $a$ to $b$ that has the least possible length and is simple conditional on $b$. This paper presents a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-11-25 Daniil Musatov

We study partitions of Fra\"{\i}ss\'{e} limits of classes of finite relational structures where the partitions are encoded by infinite binary sequences which are random in the sense of Kolmogorov, Chaitin and Solomonoff. It is shown that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-16 W. L. Fouché , P. H. Potgieter

In this paper we give a definition for quantum Kolmogorov complexity. In the classical setting, the Kolmogorov complexity of a string is the length of the shortest program that can produce this string as its output. It is a measure of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andre Berthiaume , Wim van Dam , Sophie Laplante

We suggest necessary conditions of soficness of multidimensional shifts formulated in termsof resource-bounded Kolmogorov complexity. Using this technique we provide examples ofeffective and non-sofic shifts on $\mathbb{Z}^2$ with very low…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Julien Destombes , Andrei Romashchenko

Many argued (Accardi and Fedullo, Pitowsky) that Kolmogorov's axioms of classical probability theory are incompatible with quantum probabilities, and this is the reason for the violation of Bell's inequalities. Szab\'o showed that, in fact,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Gergely Bana , Thomas Durt

We reconsider some classical natural semantics of integers (namely iterators of functions, cardinals of sets, index of equivalence relations), in the perspective of Kolmogorov complexity. To each such semantics one can attach a simple…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-01-03 Marie Ferbus-Zanda , Serge Grigorieff

The statistics behind Bell's inequality is demonstrated to allow a Kolmogorovian (i.e. classical) model of probabilities that recovers the quantum covariance.

General Physics · Physics 2008-11-24 J. F. Geurdes

Arranging the bits of a random string or real into k columns of a two-dimensional array or higher dimensional structure is typically accompanied with loss in the Kolmogorov complexity of the columns, which depends on k. We quantify and…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-19 George Barmpalias , Xiaoyan Zhang

We show that the quantum-mechanical probability distribution involving complex probability amplitudes can be derived from three natural conditions imposed on a relativistically invariant probability function describing the motion of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Karol Sajnok , Kacper Dębski , Andrzej Dragan

We describe a Groebner basis of relations among conditional probabilities in a discrete probability space, with any set of conditioned-upon events. They may be specialized to the partially-observed random variable case, the purely…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-08-11 Jason Morton

We investigate three kinds of strong laws of large numbers for capacities with a new notion of independently and identically distributed (IID) random variables for sub-linear expectations initiated by Peng. It turns out that these theorems…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-28 Zengjing Chen

For a number field K and a finite abelian group G, we determine the probabilities of various local completions of a random G-extension of K when extensions are ordered by conductor. In particular, for a fixed prime p of K, we determine the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Melanie Matchett Wood

In this paper, we address the problem of constructing a uniform probability measure on $\mathbb{N}$. Of course, this is not possible within the bounds of the Kolmogorov axioms and we have to violate at least one axiom. We define a…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-02 Timber Kerkvliet , Ronald Meester

We prove results concerning the representation of a given distribution by means of a given random quantity. The existence of a solution to this problem is related to the notion of conglomerability, originally introduced by Dubins to study…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-11 Gianluca Cassese

We tackle the problem of conditioning probabilistic programs on distributions of observable variables. Probabilistic programs are usually conditioned on samples from the joint data distribution, which we refer to as deterministic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 David Tolpin , Yuan Zhou , Tom Rainforth , Hongseok Yang

We discuss an acceptance-rejection algorithm for the random number generation from the Kolmogorov distribution. Since the cumulative distribution function (CDF) is expressed as a series, in order to obtain the density function we need to…

Computation · Statistics 2022-08-30 Paolo Onorati , Brunero Liseo

Sequential probability assignment and universal compression go hand in hand. We propose sequential probability assignment for non-binary (and large alphabet) sequences with empirical distributions whose parameters are known to be bounded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Michael Drmota , Gil Shamir , Wojciech Szpankowski

In the field of categorical probability, one uses concepts and techniques from category theory, such as monads and monoidal categories, to study the structures of probability and statistics. In this paper, we connect some ideas from…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Mika Bohinen , Paolo Perrone

We investigate the properties of a Kolmogorov equation governing the time evolution of the probability distribution defined in phase space. Energy is strictly conserved along a trajectory in phase space, meaning the equation is appropriate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-03 Mário J. de Oliveira

We bound the future loss when predicting any (computably) stochastic sequence online. Solomonoff finitely bounded the total deviation of his universal predictor M from the true distribution m by the algorithmic complexity of m. Here we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Alexey Chernov , Marcus Hutter