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Although there is a somewhat standard formalization of computability on countable sets given by Turing machines, the same cannot be said about uncountable sets. Among the approaches to define computability in these sets, order-theoretic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Pedro Hack , Daniel A. Braun , Sebastian Gottwald

In this paper we consider a fragment of the first-order theory of the real numbers that includes systems of equations of continuous functions in bounded domains, and for which all functions are computable in the sense that it is possible to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Peter Franek , Stefan Ratschan , Piotr Zgliczynski

A notable feature of the TTE approach to computability is the representation of the argument values and the corresponding function values by means of infinitistic names. Two ways to eliminate the using of such names in certain cases are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Dimiter Skordev

The approximate non-deterministic degree of a Boolean function $f$, denoted $\mathsf{ndeg}_\epsilon(f)$ (written $\mathsf{N}_\epsilon(f)$ for brevity), is the minimum degree of a real polynomial $p$ such that $0 \le |p(x)| \le \epsilon$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Samruddhi Pednekar , Supartha Podder

Computable reducibility is a well-established notion that allows to compare the complexity of various equivalence relations over the natural numbers. We generalize computable reducibility by introducing degree spectra of reducibility and…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Ekaterina Fokina , Dino Rossegger , Luca San Mauro

We investigate the computational properties of basic mathematical notions pertaining to $\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$-functions and subsets of $\mathbb{R}$, like finiteness, countability, (absolute) continuity, bounded variation,…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Dag Normann , Sam Sanders

We study a natural complexity measure of Boolean functions known as the rational degree. Denoted $\textrm{rdeg}(f)$, it is the minimal degree of a rational function that is equal to $f$ on the Boolean hypercube. For total functions $f$, it…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Vishnu Iyer , Siddhartha Jain , Robin Kothari , Matt Kovacs-Deak , Vinayak M. Kumar , Luke Schaeffer , Daochen Wang , Michael Whitmeyer

Bayesian inference requires approximation methods to become computable, but for most of them it is impossible to quantify how close the approximation is to the true posterior. In this work, we present a theorem upper-bounding the KL…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-27 Guillaume P. Dehaene

The degrees of polynomials representing or approximating Boolean functions are a prominent tool in various branches of complexity theory. Sherstov recently characterized the minimal degree deg_{\eps}(f) among all polynomials (over the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-15 Ronald de Wolf

We investigate the complexity of isomorphisms of computable structures on cones in the Turing degrees. We show that, on a cone, every structure has a strong degree of categoricity, and that degree of categoricity is $\bf{0^{(\alpha)}}$ for…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-06-10 Barbara Csima , Matthew Harrison-Trainor

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

Intrinsic complexity of a relation on a given computable structure is captured by the notion of its degree spectrum - the set of Turing degrees of images of the relation in all computable isomorphic copies of that structure. We investigate…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Nikolay Bazhenov , Dariusz Kalociński , Michał Wrocławski

A rational function $f(x)$ is rationally summable if there exists a rational function $g(x)$ such that $f(x)=g(x+1)-g(x)$. Detecting whether a given rational function is summable is an important and basic computational subproblem that…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Carlos E. Arreche , Hari P. Sitaula

We call an $\alpha \in \mathbb{R}$ regainingly approximable if there exists a computable nondecreasing sequence $(a_n)_n$ of rational numbers converging to $\alpha$ with $\alpha - a_n < 2^{-n}$ for infinitely many $n \in \mathbb{N}$. We…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Peter Hertling , Rupert Hölzl , Philip Janicki

An approximation of a real is a sequence of rational numbers that converges to the real. An approximation is left-c.e. if it is computable and nondecreasing and is d.c.e. if it is computable and has bounded variation. A real is computably…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-03-30 George Barmpalias , Nan Fang , Wolfgang Merkle , Ivan Titov

We investigate partial functions and computability theory from within a constructive, univalent type theory. The focus is on placing computability into a larger mathematical context, rather than on a complete development of computability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Cory Knapp

The \emph{index set} of a computable structure $\mathcal{A}$ is the set of indices for computable copies of $\mathcal{A}$. We determine the complexity of the index sets of various mathematically interesting structures, including arbitrary…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-03-25 Wesley Calvert , Valentina S. Harizanov , Julia F. Knight , Sara Miller

This is the first of two papers devoted to connections between asymptotic functions of groups and computational complexity. One of the main results of this paper states that if for every $m$ the first $m$ digits of a real number $\alpha\ge…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mark Sapir , Jean-Camille Birget , Eliyahu Rips

Adapting a result of Bazhenov, Kalimullin, and Yamaleev, we show that if a Turing degree $\textbf{d}$ is the degree of categoricity of a computable structure $\mathcal{M}$ and is not the strong degree of categoricity of any computable…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Joey Lakerdas-Gayle

The dynamics of symbolic systems, such as multidimensional subshifts of finite type or cellular automata, are known to be closely related to computability theory. In particular, the appropriate tools to describe and classify topological…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Silvere Gangloff , Alonso Herrera , Cristobal Rojas , Mathieu Sablik