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We propose a definition of computable manifold by introducing computability as a structure that we impose to a given topological manifold, just in the same way as differentiability or piecewise linearity are defined for smooth and PL…

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Computer based techniques for recognizing finitely presented groups are quite powerful. Tools available for this purpose are outlined. They are available both in stand-alone programs and in more comprehensive systems. A general…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-03 George Havas , Edmund F. Robertson

We introduce a notion of computable randomness for infinite sequences that generalises the classical version in two important ways. First, our definition of computable randomness is associated with imprecise probability models, in the sense…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Floris Persiau , Jasper De Bock , Gert de Cooman

In this chapter, we explore how (Type-2) computable distributions can be used to give both (algorithmic) sampling and distributional semantics to probabilistic programs with continuous distributions. Towards this end, we sketch an encoding…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Daniel Huang , Greg Morrisett , Bas Spitters

We develop a novel formal theory of finite structures, based on a view of finite structures as a fundamental artifact of computing and programming, forming a common platform for computing both within particular finite structures, and in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Daniel Leivant

To date, work on formalizing connectionist computation in a way that is at least Turing-complete has focused on recurrent architectures and developed equivalences to Turing machines or similar super-Turing models, which are of more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Anthony Di Franco

This work continues the development of an intensional approach to computability initiated in previous work, in which programs and computations, rather than functions, constitute the primary objects of study. In this setting, models of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Thomas Seiller

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

Computational content encoded into constructive type theory proofs can be used to make computing experiments over concrete data structures. In this paper, we explore this possibility when working in Coq with chain complexes of infinite type…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-04-29 César Domínguez , Julio Rubio

TThe problem is to identify a probability associated with a set of natural numbers, given an infinite data sequence of elements from the set. If the given sequence is drawn i.i.d. and the probability mass function involved (the target)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Paul M. B. Vitanyi , Nick Chater

In this paper, we investigate the problem of synthesizing computable functions of infinite words over an infinite alphabet (data $\omega$-words). The notion of computability is defined through Turing machines with infinite inputs which can…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Léo Exibard , Emmanuel Filiot , Nathan Lhote , Pierre-Alain Reynier

The authors discuss information-based complexity theory, which is a model of finite-precision computations with real numbers, and its applications to numerical analysis.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-02-03 J. F. Traub , Henryk Woźniakowski

A remarkable new definition of a self-delimiting universal Turing machine is presented that is easy to program and runs very quickly. This provides a new foundation for algorithmic information theory. This new universal Turing machine is…

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computable functions are defined by abstract finite deterministic algorithms on many-sorted algebras. We show that there exist finite universal algebraic specifications that specify uniquely (up to isomorphism) (i) all abstract computable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 J. V. Tucker , J. I. Zucker

The connection between self-assembly and computation suggests that a shape can be considered the output of a self-assembly ``program,'' a set of tiles that fit together to create a shape. It seems plausible that the size of the smallest…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-06-22 David Soloveichik , Erik Winfree

We investigate topological, combinatorial, statistical, and enumeration properties of finite graphs with high Kolmogorov complexity (almost all graphs) using the novel incompressibility method. Example results are: (i) the mean and variance…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Harry Buhrman , Ming Li , John Tromp , Paul Vitanyi

Many forms of programmable matter have been proposed for various tasks. We use an abstract model of self-organizing particle systems for programmable matter which could be used for a variety of applications, including smart paint and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Alexandra Porter , Andréa W. Richa

Recent algorithmic advances in algebraic automata theory drew attention to semigroupoids (semicategories). These are mathematical descriptions of typed computational processes, but they have not been studied systematically in the context of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Attila Egri-Nagy , Chrystopher L. Nehaniv

The Turing machine is one of the simple abstract computational devices that can be used to investigate the limits of computability. In this paper, they are considered from several points of view that emphasize the importance and the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-03-16 Yaroslav D. Sergeyev , Alfredo Garro

We investigate the computability of algebraic closure and definable closure with respect to a collection of formulas. We show that for a computable collection of formulas of quantifier rank at most $n$, in any given computable structure,…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Nathanael Ackerman , Cameron Freer , Rehana Patel