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The paper considers quantitative versions of different randomness notions: algorithmic test measures the amount of non-randomness (and is infinite for non-random sequences). We start with computable measures on Cantor space (and Martin-Lof…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-05-27 Laurent Bienvenu , Peter Gacs , Mathieu Hoyrup , Cristobal Rojas , Alexander Shen

The Scott rank of a countable structure is a measure, coming from the proof of Scott's isomorphism theorem, of the complexity of that structure. The Scott spectrum of a theory (by which we mean a sentence of $\mathcal{L}_{\omega_1 \omega}$)…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Matthew Harrison-Trainor

A fruitful way of obtaining meaningful, possibly concrete, algorithmically random numbers is to consider a potential behaviour of a Turing machine and its probability with respect to a measure (or semi-measure) on the input space of binary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-13 George Barmpalias , Douglas Cenzer , Christopher P. Porter

For each subset of Baire space, we define, in away similar to a common proof of the Cantor-Bendixson Theorem, a sequence of decreasing subsets S_alpha of N^N, indexed by ordinals. We use this to obtain two new characterizations of the…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-01-25 Samuel Alexander

Algorithmic randomness theory starts with a notion of an individual random object. To be reasonable, this notion should have some natural properties; in particular, an object should be random with respect to image distribution if and only…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Laurent Bienvenu , Mathieu Hoyrup , Alexander Shen

In the theory of algorithmic randomness, one of the central notions is that of computable randomness. An infinite binary sequence X is computably random if no recursive martingale (strategy) can win an infinite amount of money by betting on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Laurent Bienvenu , Frank Stephan , Jason Teutsch

Recently, Anderson et al. (2019) proposed the concept of rankability, which refers to a dataset's inherent ability to produce a meaningful ranking of its items. In the same paper, they proposed a rankability measure that is based on a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Thomas R. Cameron , Amy N. Langville , Heather C. Smith

In this paper we investigate algorithmic randomness on more general spaces than the Cantor space, namely computable metric spaces. To do this, we first develop a unified framework allowing computations with probability measures. We show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-07-23 Mathieu Hoyrup , Cristobal Rojas

We present two theorems concerned with algorithmic randomness and differentiability of functions of several variables. Firstly, we prove an effective form of the Rademacher's Theorem: we show that computable randomness implies…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Alex Galicki , Daniel Turetsky

Given a right-infinite word $\bf x$ over a finite alphabet $A$, the rank of $\bf x$ is the size of the smallest set $S$ of words over $A$ such that $\bf x$ can be realized as an infinite concatenation of words in $S$. We show that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Jason Bell , Jeffrey Shallit

Martin's Conjecture states that every definable function on the Turing degrees is either constant or increasing, and that every increasing function is an iterate of the Turing jump. This classification has already been corroborated for the…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Antonio Nakid Cordero

We focus on formulae $\exists X.\, \varphi(\vec{Y}, X)$ of monadic second-order logic over the full binary tree, such that the witness $X$ is a well-founded set. The ordinal rank $\mathrm{rank}(X) < \omega_1$ of such a set $X$ measures its…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Damian Niwiński , Paweł Parys , Michał Skrzypczak

In this paper we introduce the notion of linear computability as a method of finding the Waring rank of forms. We use this notion to find infinitely many new examples which satisfy Strassen's Conjecture.

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Enrico Carlini , Maria Virginia Catalisano , Luca Chiantini , Anthony V. Geramita , Youngho Woo

We examine the computable part of the differentiability hierarchy defined by Kechris and Woodin. In that hierarchy, the rank of a differentiable function is an ordinal less than omega_1 which measures how complex it is to verify…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-08-02 Linda Brown Westrick

Randomness in the sense of Martin-L\"of can be defined in terms of lower semicomputable supermartingales. We show that such a supermartingale cannot be replaced by a pair of supermartingales that bet only on the even bits (the first one)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-11-28 Andrej Muchnik

A result of Shen says that if $F\colon2^{\mathbb{N}}\rightarrow2^{\mathbb{N}}$ is an almost-everywhere computable, measure-preserving transformation, and $y\in2^{\mathbb{N}}$ is Martin-L\"of random, then there is a Martin-L\"of random…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Jason Rute

We study the Cantor-Bendixson rank of metabelian and virtually metabelian groups in the space of marked groups, and in particular, we exhibit a sequence (G_n) of 2-generated, finitely presented, virtually metabelian groups of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-17 Yves Cornulier

The rank-based association between two variables can be modeled by introducing a latent normal level to ordinal data. We demonstrate how this approach yields Bayesian inference for Kendall's rank correlation coefficient, improving on a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-25 Johnny van Doorn , Alexander Ly , Maarten Marsman , Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

In algorithmic randomness, when one wants to define a randomness notion with respect to some non-computable measure $\lambda $, a choice needs to be made. One approach is to allow randomness tests to access the measure $\lambda $ as an…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-08-14 Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen , Antoine Taveneaux , Neil Thapen

The notion of Schnorr randomness refers to computable reals or computable functions. We propose a version of Schnorr randomness for subcomputable classes and characterize it in different ways: by Martin L\"of tests, martingales or measure…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Claude Sureson