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To explore the limitation of a class of quantum algorithms originally proposed for the Hilbert's tenth problem, we consider two further classes of mathematically non-decidable problems, those of a modified version of the Hilbert's tenth…

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

All strings with low mutual information with the halting sequence will have flat Kolmogorov Structure Functions, in the context of Algorithmic Statistics. Assuming the Independence Postulate, strings with non-negligible information with the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Samuel Epstein

We present a new approach to formal language theory using Kolmogorov complexity. The main results presented here are an alternative for pumping lemma(s), a new characterization for regular languages, and a new method to separate…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ming Li , Paul Vitanyi

The celebrated Trakhtenbrot's theorem states that the set of finitely valid sentences of first-order logic is not computably enumerable. In this note we will extend this theorem by proving that the finite satisfiability problem of any…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Reijo Jaakkola

The purpose of this thesis is to give a formal definition of quantum Kolmogorov complexity (QC), and rigorous mathematical proofs of its basic properties. The definition used here is similar to that by Berthiaume, van Dam, and Laplante. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-31 Markus Mueller

In analogy of classical Kolmogorov complexity we develop a theory of the algorithmic information in bits contained in any one of continuously many pure quantum states: quantum Kolmogorov complexity. Classical Kolmogorov complexity coincides…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Vitanyi

This work is motivated by the problem of finding the limit of the applicability of the first incompleteness theorem ($\sf G1$). A natural question is: can we find a minimal theory for which $\sf G1$ holds? We examine the Turing degree…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Yong Cheng

This paper proves a Kolmogorov-complexity-flavored sufficient condition for a set to be attractive and discusses some consequences of this condition.

Logic · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Tiago Royer

In 1931, G\"odel presented in K\"onigsberg his famous Incompleteness Theorem, stating that some true mathematical statements are unprovable. Yet, this result gives us no idea about those independent (that is, true and unprovable)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-07-08 Bruno Grenet

Kolmogorov complexity theory is used to tell what the algorithmic informational content of a string is. It is defined as the length of the shortest program that describes the string. We present a programming language that can be used to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-06-13 Noson S. Yanofsky

Goedel Incompleteness Theorem leaves open a way around it, vaguely perceived for a long time but not clearly identified. (Thus, Goedel believed informal arguments can answer any math question.) Closing this loophole does not seem obvious…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Leonid A. Levin

By Kolmogorov Complexity,two number-theoretic problems are solved in different way than before,one problem is Maxim Kontsevich and Don Bernard Zagier's Problem 3 \emph{Exhibit at least one number which does not belong to} $ \mathcal{P}$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Yang Bai , Xiuli Wang

In addition to the equations, physicists use the following additional difficult-to-formalize property: that the initial conditions and the value of the parameters must not be abnormal. We will describe a natural formalization of this…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Isaak A. Kunin , Vladik Kreinovich , Yuri A. Kuperin

The no-supervenience theorem limits the capacity of physicalist theories to provide a comprehensive account of human consciousness. The proof of the theorem is difficult to formalize because it relies on both alethic and epistemic notions…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-13 Cathy M Reason

Kolmogorov-Chaitin complexity has long been believed to be impossible to approximate when it comes to short sequences (e.g. of length 5-50). However, with the newly developed \emph{coding theorem method} the complexity of strings of length…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Nicolas Gauvrit , Henrik Singmann , Fernando Soler-Toscano , Hector Zenil

In the paper we present results to develop an irreducible theory of complex systems in terms of self-organization processes of prime integer relations. Based on the integers and controlled by arithmetic only the self-organization processes…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor Korotkikh , Galina Korotkikh

Given a first-order theory $T$ formulated in the usual language of first-order arithmetic, we say that $T$ is of *restricted complexity* if there is some natural number $n$ and some set $\mathcal A$ of $\Sigma_n$-sentences such that $T$ can…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Ali Enayat , Mateusz Łełyk , Albert Visser

This paper examines the possibilities of extending Cantor's two arguments on the uncountable nature of the set of real numbers to one of its proper denumerable subsets: the set of rational numbers. The paper proves that, unless certain…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2012-01-26 Antonio Leon

We show that there are infinitely many binary strings z, such that the sum of the on-line decision complexity of predicting the even bits of z given the previous uneven bits, and the decision complexity of predicting the uneven bits given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-01 Bruno Bauwens

In many instances in first order logic or computable algebra, classical theorems show that many problems are undecidable for general structures, but become decidable if some rigidity is imposed on the structure. For example, the set of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Emmanuel Jeandel