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The paper is devoted to a generalized and improved version of author's approach to Gromov bounded cohomology theory. In particular, the awkward countability assumption is removed and the aspects related to homological algebra are clarified.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Nikolai V. Ivanov

The word "complexity" is most often used as a meta--linguistic expression referring to certain intuitive characteristics of a natural system and/or its scientific description. These characteristics may include: sheer amount of data that…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2013-01-03 Yuri I. Manin

In Sternfeld's work on Kolmogorov's Superposition Theorem appeared the combinatorial-geometric notion of a basic set and a certain kind of arrays. A subset $X \subset \mathbb R^n$ is basic if any continuous function $X\to \mathbb R$ could…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Sviatoslav Dzhenzher

For simple theories with a strong version of amalgamation we obtain the canonical hyperdefinable group from the group configuration. This provides a generalization to simple theories of the group configuration theorem for stable theories.

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tristram De Piro , Byunghan Kim , Jessica Millar

We briefly show how the use of topological spaces and $\sigma$-algebras in physics can be rederived and understood as the fundamental requirement of experimental verifiability. We will see that a set of experimentally distinguishable…

General Physics · Physics 2021-09-09 Gabriele Carcassi , Christine A. Aidala

Many algorithms are specified with respect to a fixed but unspecified parameter. Examples of this are especially common in cryptography, where protocols often feature a security parameter such as the bit length of a secret key. Our aim is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Alessandro Di Giorgio , Pawel Sobocinski , Niels Voorneveld

Many things in mathematics seem lamost unreasonably nice. This includes objects, counterexamples, proofs. In this preprint I discuss many examples of this phenomenon with emphasis on the ring of polynomials in a countably infinite number of…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2008-11-03 Michiel Hazewinkel

This paper presents a type theory in which it is possible to directly manipulate $n$-dimensional cubes (points, lines, squares, cubes, etc.) based on an interpretation of dependent type theory in a cubical set model. This enables new ways…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Cyril Cohen , Thierry Coquand , Simon Huber , Anders Mörtberg

Kolmogorov's setting for probability theory is given an original generalization to account for probabilities arising from Quantum Mechanics. The sample space has a central role in this presentation and random variables, i.e., observables,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-05 Daniel Lehmann

The main theorem of this article is that every countable model of set theory M, including every well-founded model, is isomorphic to a submodel of its own constructible universe. In other words, there is an embedding $j:M\to L^M$ that is…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-02-14 Joel David Hamkins

Kolmogorov argued that the concept of information exists also in problems with no underlying stochastic model (as Shannon's information representation) for instance, the information contained in an algorithm or in the genome. He introduced…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-07-01 Joel Ratsaby

Maximum composite likelihood estimation is a useful alternative to maximum likelihood estimation when data arise from data generating processes (DGPs) that do not admit tractable joint specification. We demonstrate that generic composite…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-29 Hien D Nguyen , Jessica Bagnall-Guerreiro , Andrew T Jones

I present a method of quantization using cohomology groups extended via coefficient groups of different types. This is possible according to the Universal Coefficient Theorem (UCT). I also show that by using this method new features of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-18 Andrei T. Patrascu

We argue about a conceptual approach to quantum formalism. Starting from philosophical conjectures (Platonism, Idealism and Realism) as basic ontic elements (namely: math world, data world, and state of matter), we will analyze the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Helen Lynn , Michele Caponigro

The notion of Kolmogorov complexity (=the minimal length of a program that generates some object) is often useful as a kind of language that allows us to reformulate some notions and therefore provide new intuition. In this survey we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-01 Alexander Shen

We present assembly-theory, a Rust package for computing assembly indices of covalently bonded molecular structures. This is a key complexity measure of assembly theory, a recent theoretical framework quantifying selection across diverse…

While Kolmogorov complexity is the accepted absolute measure of information content in an individual finite object, a similarly absolute notion is needed for the information distance between two individual objects, for example, two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-18 Charles H. Bennett , Peter Gacs , Ming Li , Paul M. B. Vitanyi , Wojciech H. Zurek

In this note, we propose a simple-looking but broad conjecture about star-algebras over the field of real numbers. The conjecture enables many matrix decompositions to be represented by star-algebras and star-ideals. This paper is written…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2023-08-10 Ran Gutin

Category theory is famous for its innovative way of thinking of concepts by their descriptions, in particular by establishing universal properties. Concepts that can be characterized in a universal way receive a certain quality seal, which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Sergey Goncharov

The generalisation of proper time, as an alternative to models with extra dimensions of space, has been proposed as the source of the elementary structures of matter. Direct connections with the Standard Model of particle physics together…

General Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 David J. Jackson