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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

According to the Church-Turing Thesis (CTT), effective formal behaviours can be simulated by Turing machines; this has naturally led to speculation that physical systems can also be simulated computationally. But is this wider claim true,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-10 Mike Stannett

Infinite time Turing machines (ITTMs) have been introduced by Hamkins and Lewis in their seminal article arXiv:math/9808093. The strength of the model comes from a limit rule which allows the ITTM to compute through ordinal stages. This…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Olivier Bournez , Olivier Finkel , Johan Girardot

The present paper introduces a novel notion of `(effective) computability', called viability, of strategies in game semantics in an intrinsic (i.e., without recourse to the standard Church-Turing computability), non-inductive and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Norihiro Yamada

A concept of randomness for infinite time register machines (ITRMs), resembling Martin-L\"of-randomness, is defined and studied. In particular, we show that for this notion of randomness, computability from mutually random reals implies…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Merlin Carl

This paper demonstrates the relativity of Computability and Nondeterministic; the nondeterministic is just Turing's undecidable Decision rather than the Nondeterministic Polynomial time. Based on analysis about TM, UM, DTM, NTM, Turing…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Jian-Ming Zhou

Deutsch, Feynman, and Manin viewed quantum computing as a kind of universal physical simulation procedure. Much of the writing about quantum Turing machines has shown how these machines can simulate an arbitrary unitary transformation on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Willem Fouché , Johannes Heidema , Glyn Jones , Petrus H. Potgieter

This paper extends our paper \cite{C2} for the conference ``Computability in Europe'' 2022. After Infinite Time Turing Machines (ITTM) were introduced in Hamkins and Lewis \cite{HL}, a number of machine models of computability have been…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Merlin Carl

We propose a notion of autoreducibility for infinite time computability and explore it and its connection with a notion of randomness for infinite time machines.

Logic · Mathematics 2014-02-06 Merlin Carl

We extend in a natural way the operation of Turing machines to infinite ordinal time, and investigate the resulting supertask theory of computability and decidability on the reals. The resulting computability theory leads to a notion of…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel David Hamkins , Andy Lewis

The Independence Postulate (IP) is a finitary Church-Turing Thesis, saying mathematical sequences are independent from physical ones. Modelling observations as infinite sequences of real numbers, IP implies the existence of anomalies.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Samuel Epstein

This paper analyzes infinitary nondeterministic computability theory. The main result is D $\ne$ ND $\cap$ coND where D is the class of sets decidable by infinite time Turing machines and ND is the class of sets recognizable by a…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Erin Carmody

By INF we mean Quine's NF set theory, with intuitionistic logic. We define the Church numerals (or better, Church numbers) and elaborate their properties in INF. The Church counting axiom says that iterating successor $n$ times, starting at…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Michael Beeson

The notion of computability is stable (i.e. independent of the choice of an indexing) over infinite-dimensional vector spaces provided they have a finite "tensorial dimension". Such vector spaces with a finite tensorial dimension permit to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Pablo Arrighi , Gilles Dowek

The Church-Turing thesis is one of the pillars of computer science; it postulates that every classical system has equivalent computability power to the so-called Turing machine. While this thesis is crucial for our understanding of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-28 Ariel Bendersky , Gonzalo de la Torre , Gabriel Senno , Santiago Figueira , Antonio Acin

Due to common misconceptions about the Church-Turing thesis, it has been widely assumed that the Turing machine provides an upper bound on what is computable. This is not so. The new field of hypercomputation studies models of computation…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Toby Ord

The conceptual relation between the measurability of quantum mechanical observables and the computability of numerical functions is re-examined. A new formulation is given for the notion of measurability with finite precision in order to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masanao Ozawa

We describe the basic theory of infinite time Turing machines and some recent developments, including the infinite time degree theory, infinite time complexity theory, and infinite time computable model theory. We focus particularly on the…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Samuel Coskey , Joel David Hamkins

If we define classical foundational concepts constructively, and introduce non-algorithmic effective methods into classical mathematics, then we can bridge the chasm between truth and provability, and define computational methods that are…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bhupinder Singh Anand

Existing models of computation, such as a Turing machine (hereafter, TM), do not consider the agent involved in interpreting the outcome of the computation. We argue that a TM, or any other computation model, has no significance if its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Henok Ghebrechristos , Drew Miller