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Challenging the standard notion of totality in computable functions, one has that, given any sufficiently expressive formal axiomatic system, there are total functions that, although computable and "intuitively" understood as being total,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Felipe S. Abrahão , Klaus Wehmuth , Artur Ziviani

A major open problem in computational complexity is the existence of a one-way function, namely a function from strings to strings which is computationally easy to compute but hard to invert. Levin (2023) formulated the notion of one-way…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-21 George Barmpalias , Xiaoyan Zhang

It is known that, in finite dimensions, the support function of a compact convex set with non empty interior is differentiable excepting the origin if and only if the set is strictly convex. In this paper we realize a thorough study of the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-07 C. Zalinescu

For families of smooth complex projective varieties we show that normal functions arising from algebraically trivial cycle classes are algebraic, and defined over the field of definition of the family. In particular, the zero loci of those…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Jeff Achter , Sebastian Casalaina-Martin , Charles Vial

A universal Turing machine is a powerful concept - a single device can compute any function that is computable. A universal spin model, similarly, is a class of physical systems whose low energy behavior simulates that of any spin system.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Tomáš Gonda , Gemma De les Coves

The problem of finding graph structure of functions commuting with a given function in terms of their functional graphs is considered. Structure of functional graphs of commuting functions is described. The problem is reduced to describing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Peteris Daugulis

Martin's Conjecture is a proposed classification of the definable functions on the Turing degrees. It is usually divided into two parts, the first of which classifies functions which are not above the identity and the second of which…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Patrick Lutz , Benjamin Siskind

This paper is concerned with the foundations of the Calculus of Algebraic Constructions (CAC), an extension of the Calculus of Constructions by inductive data types. CAC generalizes inductive types equipped with higher-order primitive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-05-27 Frédéric Blanqui , Jean-Pierre Jouannaud , Mitsuhiro Okada

We study a new notion of reduction between structures called enumerable functors related to the recently investigated notion of computable functors. Our main result shows that enumerable functors and effective interpretability with the…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-08-11 Dino Rossegger

One of the elegant achievements in the history of proof theory is the characterization of the provably total recursive functions of an arithmetical theory by its proof-theoretic ordinal as a way to measure the time complexity of the…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Amirhossein Akbar Tabatabai

We initiate the study of computable presentations of real and complex C*-algebras under the program of effective metric structure theory. With the group situation as a model, we develop corresponding notions of recursive presentations and…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Alec Fox

Contrary to the classical case, the relation between quantum programming languages and quantum Turing Machines (QTM) has not being fully investigated. In particular, there are features of QTMs that have not been exploited, a notable example…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Stefano Guerrini , Simone Martini , Andrea Masini

The history of computability theory and and the history of analysis are surprisingly intertwined since the beginning of the twentieth century. For one, \'Emil Borel discussed his ideas on computable real number functions in his introduction…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Vasco Brattka

The paper presents some results for reducing the computation of the M\"obius functon of a M\"obius category that arises from a combinatorial inverse semigroup to that of locally finite partially ordered sets. We illustrate the computation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Emil Daniel Schwab , Juan Villarreal

A central method for analyzing the asymptotic complexity of a functional program is to extract and then solve a recurrence that expresses evaluation cost in terms of input size. The relevant notion of input size is often specific to a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Norman Danner , Daniel R. Licata , Ramyaa Ramyaa

The absolute Galois group Gal$(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}/\mathbb{Q})$ of the field $\mathbb{Q}$ of rational numbers can be presented as a highly computable object, under the notion of type-2 Turing computation. We formalize such a presentation…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Russell Miller

This article addresses structure-preserving smooth approximation of semiconcave functions. semiconcave functions are of particular interest because they naturally arise in a variety of variational problems, including {optimal feedback…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Karl Kunisch , Donato Vásquez-Varas

At a first glance the Theory of computation relies on potential infinity and an organization aimed at solving a problem. Under such aspect it is like Mendeleev theory of chemistry. Also its theoretical development reiterates that of this…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-01-15 Antonino Drago

This paper presents a logical approach to the translation of functional calculi into concurrent process calculi. The starting point is a type system for the {\pi}-calculus closely related to linear logic. Decompositions of intuitionistic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-07-22 Emmanuel Beffara

We prove the computability of a version of Whitney Extension, when the input is suitably represented. More specifically, if $F \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ is a closed set represented so that the distance function $x \mapsto d(x,F)$ can be…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Andrea Brun , Guido Gherardi , Alberto Marcone