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In previous papers on this project a general static logical framework for formalizing and mechanizing set theories of different strength was suggested, and the power of some predicatively acceptable theories in that framework was explored.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Arnon Avron , Liron Cohen

Beginning with Turing's seminal work in 1950, artificial intelligence proposes that consciousness can be simulated by a Turing machine. This implies a potential theory of everything where the universe is a simulation on a computer, which…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Blake Wilson , Ethan Dickey , Vaishnavi Iyer , Sabre Kais

One of the fundamental results in computability is the existence of well-defined functions that cannot be computed. In this paper we study the effects of data representation on computability; we show that, while for each possible way of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Jaun Casanova , Simone Santini

The asynchronous computability theorem (ACT) uses concepts from combinatorial topology to characterize which tasks have wait-free solutions in read-write memory. A task can be expressed as a relation between two chromatic simplicial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Vikram Saraph , Maurice Herlihy , Eli Gafni

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

Conformal prediction (CP) is widely presented as distribution-free predictive inference with finite-sample marginal coverage under exchangeability. We argue that CP is best understood as a rank-calibrated descendant of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Jyotishka Datta , Nicholas G. Polson , Vadim Sokolov , Daniel Zantedeschi

Experimental science usually relies on laboratory procedures that, after finitely many steps, terminate with numerical reports on physical quantities. This paper argues that such procedures can be understood as algorithmic once the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Isaac Pérez Castillo

The Church-Turing thesis asserts that if a partial strings-to-strings function is effectively computable then it is computable by a Turing machine. In the 1930s, when Church and Turing worked on their versions of the thesis, there was a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Yuri Gurevich

This article describes a Turing machine which can solve for $\beta^{'}$ which is RE-complete. RE-complete problems are proven to be undecidable by Turing's accepted proof on the Entscheidungsproblem. Thus, constructing a machine which…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Mark Inman

We conduct a computability-theoretic study of Ramsey-like theorems of the form "Every coloring of the edges of an infinite clique admits an infinite sub-clique avoiding some pattern", with a particular focus on transitive patterns. As it…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Quentin Le Houérou , Ludovic Patey

In this paper we will develop an axiomatic foundation for the geometric study of straight edge, protractor, and compass constructions, which while being related to previous foundations, will be the first to have all axioms written and all…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-18 John R. Burke

This article explores the model-dependent nature of set cardinality, emphasizing that cardinality is not absolute but varies across different axiomatic frameworks. Although Cantor's diagonal argument shows the real numbers are…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Slavica Mihaljevic Vlahovic , Branislav Dobrasin Vlahovic

We present a new manifestation of G\"odel's second incompleteness theorem and discuss its foundational significance, in particular with respect to Hilbert's program. Specifically, we consider a proper extension of Peano arithmetic…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-04-16 Anton Freund

We give a number of formal proofs of theorems from the field of computable analysis. Many of our results specify executable algorithms that work on infinite inputs by means of operating on finite approximations and are proven correct in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Florian Steinberg , Laurent Thery , Holger Thies

Let $\mathcal{T}$ be any of the three canonical truth theories $\textsf{CT}^-$ (Compositional truth without extra induction), $\textsf{FS}^-$ (Friedman--Sheard truth without extra induction), and $\textsf{KF}^-$ (Kripke--Feferman truth…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Ali Enayat , Mateusz Łełyk , Bartosz Wcisło

Quantum theory promises computational speed-ups over classical approaches. The celebrated Gottesman-Knill Theorem implies that the full power of quantum computation resides in the specific resource of "magic" states -- the secret sauce to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Xingjian Zhang , Zhaokai Pan , Guoding Liu

Rice's theorem states that no non-trivial semantic property of programs is decidable. Classical proofs proceed by reduction from the halting problem, invoking the law of excluded middle (LEM) twice: once through diagonalization, and once…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jonathan Brossard

According to the Church-Turing Thesis (CTT), effective formal behaviours can be simulated by Turing machines; this has naturally led to speculation that physical systems can also be simulated computationally. But is this wider claim true,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-10 Mike Stannett

The main aim of the article is to show, in the absence of the Axiom of Choice, relationships between the following, independent of $\mathbf{ZF}$, statements: "Every countable product of compact metrizable spaces is separable (respectively,…

General Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Kyriakos Keremedis , Eleftherios Tachtsis , Eliza Wajch

This research is about operational- and complexity-oriented aspects of classical foundations of computability theory. The approach is to re-examine some classical theorems and constructions, but with new criteria for success that are…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-09-23 Neil D. Jones