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This paper talk about the complexity of computation by Turing Machine. I take attention to the relation of symmetry and order structure of the data, and I think about the limitation of computation time. First, I make general problem named…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-09-24 Koji Kobayashi

Quantum computing is concerned with computer technology based on the principles of quantum mechanics, with operations performed at the quantum level. Quantum computational models make it possible to analyze the resources required for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Amandeep Singh Bhatia , Ajay Kumar

The existence of time machines, understood as spacetime constructions exhibiting physically realised closed timelike curves (CTCs), would raise fundamental problems with causality and challenge our current understanding of classical and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 G. M. Shore

In a recent paper, Mallett found a solution of the Einstein equations in which closed timelike curves (CTC's) are present in the empty space outside an infinitely long cylinder of light moving in circular paths around an axis. Here we show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ken D. Olum , Allen Everett

Many solutions of Einstein's field equations contain closed timelike curves (CTC). Some of these solutions refer to ordinary materials in situations which might occur in the laboratory, or in astrophysics. It is argued that, in default of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 W. B. Bonnor

This paper presents the reachability analysis of curves in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with a prescribed curvature bound. Based on Pontryagin Maximum Principle, we leverage the existing knowledge on the structure of solutions to minimum-time problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Juho Bae , Ji Hoon Bai , Byung-Yoon Lee , Jun-Yong Lee , Chang-Hun Lee

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

Recently, there has been much interest in the evolution of quantum particles on closed time-like curves (CTCs). However, such models typically assume point-like particles with only two degrees of freedom - a very questionable assumption…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-18 J. L. Pienaar , C. R. Myers , T. C. Ralph

Significant advances in the development of computing devices based on quantum effects and the demonstration of their use to solve various problems have rekindled interest in the nature of the "quantum computational advantage." Although…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Aleksey K. Fedorov , Evgeniy O. Kiktenko , Nikolay N. Kolachevsky

We consider Deutsch's computational model of a quantum system evolving in a spacetime containing closed timelike curves. Although it is known that this model predicts non-linear and non-unitary evolutions of the system, we demonstrate that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-12 Richard DeJonghe , Kimberly Frey , Tom Imbo

Labeled Markov Chains (or LMCs for short) are useful mathematical objects to model complex probabilistic languages. A central challenge is to compare two LMCs, for example to assess the accuracy of an abstraction or to quantify the effect…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Adrien Banse , Alessandro Abate , Raphaël M. Jungers

The capacity of finite state channels (FSCs) has been established as the limit of a sequence of multi-letter expressions only and, despite tremendous effort, a corresponding finite-letter characterization remains unknown to date. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Holger Boche , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

Among the fundamental questions in computer science, at least two have a deep impact on mathematics. What can computation compute? How many steps does a computation require to solve an instance of the 3-SAT problem? Our work addresses the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Michael Stephen Fiske

We show that the computational power of the non-causal circuit model, i.e., the circuit model where the assumption of a global causal order is replaced by the assumption of logical consistency, is completely characterized by the complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-15 Ämin Baumeler , Stefan Wolf

The study of automorphisms of computable and other structures connects computability theory with classical group theory. Among the noncomputable countable structures, computably enumerable structures are one of the most important objects of…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Rumen Dimitrov , Valentina Harizanov , Andrey Morozov

We investigate vacuum solutions of Einstein's equation for a universe with an S^1 topology of time. Such a universe behaves like a time-machine and has geodesics which coincide with closed time-like curves (CTCs). A system evolving along a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Moninder Singh Modgil , Deshdeep Sahdev

We explore in the framework of Quantum Computation the notion of {\em Computability}, which holds a central position in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. A quantum algorithm for Hilbert's tenth problem, which is equivalent to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tien D Kieu

The present paper presents and proves a proposition concerning the time complexity of finite languages. It is shown herein, that for any finite language (a language for which the set of words composing it is finite) there is a Turing…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mircea Alexandru Popescu Moscu

We analyze how the presence of closed timelike curves (CTCs) characterizing a time machine can be discerned by placing a local particle detector in a region of spacetime which is causally disconnected from the CTCs. Our study shows that not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Ana Alonso-Serrano , Erickson Tjoa , Luis J. Garay , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

We investigate the Church-Kalm\'ar-Kreisel-Turing Theses concerning theoretical (necessary) limitations of future computers and of deductive sciences, in view of recent results of classical general relativity theory. We argue that (i) there…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabor Etesi , Istvan Nemeti