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There are several forms of irreducibility in computing systems, ranging from undecidability to intractability to nonlinearity. This paper is an exploration of the conceptual issues that have arisen in the course of investigating speed-up…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-06-24 Hector Zenil , Fernando Soler-Toscano , Joost J. Joosten

A notion of alternating timed automata is proposed. It is shown that such automata with only one clock have decidable emptiness problem over finite words. This gives a new class of timed languages which is closed under boolean operations…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Slawomir Lasota , Igor Walukiewicz

Our manuscript studies linear temporal (with UNTIL and NEXT) logic based at a conception of intransitive time. non-transitive time. In particular, we demonstrate how the notion of knowledge might be represented in such a framework (here we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Vladimir Rybakov

We introduce deterministic concurrent systems as a subclass of concurrent systems. Deterministic concurrent system are "locally commutative" concurrent systems. We prove that irreducible and deterministic concurrent systems have a unique…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-18 Samy Abbes

This work establishes a rigorous theoretical foundation for analyzing deep learning systems by leveraging Infinite Time Turing Machines (ITTMs), which extend classical computation into transfinite ordinal steps. Using ITTMs, we reinterpret…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Rukmal Weerawarana , Maxwell Braun

We describe the Turing Machine, list some of its many influences on the theory of computation and complexity of computations, and illustrate its importance.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-08-26 P. M. B. Vitanyi

The $\textbf{P}$ vs. $\textbf{NP}$ problem is an important problem in contemporary mathematics and theoretical computer science. Many proofs have been proposed to this problem. This paper proposes a theoretic proof for $\textbf{P}$ vs.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Changlin Wan , Zhongzhi Shi

Assuming $\mathrm{ZF}$, we prove that Turing determinacy ($\mathrm{TD}$) implies countable choice axiom for sets of reals ($\mathrm{CCR}$).

Logic · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Yinhe Peng , Liang Yu

We prove in this paper that there is a language $L_s$ accepted by some nondeterministic Turing machine that runs within time $O(n^k)$ for any positive integer $k\in\mathbb{N}_1$ but not by any ${\rm co}\mathcal{NP}$ machines. Then we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tianrong Lin

We consider the termination/non-termination property of a class of loops. Such loops are commonly used abstractions of real program pieces. Second-order logic is a convenient language to express non-termination. Of course, such property is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Fred Mesnard , Etienne Payet

The complexity class $NP$ can be logically characterized both through existential second order logic $SO\exists$, as proven by Fagin, and through simulating a Turing machine via the satisfiability problem of propositional logic SAT, as…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Tuomo Kauranne

An infinite binary sequence A is absolutely undecidable if it is impossible to compute A on a set of positions of positive upper density. Absolute undecidability is a weakening of bi-immunity. Downey, Jockusch and Schupp asked whether,…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-03-21 Laurent Bienvenu , Rupert Hölzl , Adam R. Day

History-deterministic automata are those in which nondeterministic choices can be correctly resolved stepwise: there is a strategy to select a continuation of a run given the next input letter so that if the overall input word admits some…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Soumyajit Paul , David Purser , Sven Schewe , Qiyi Tang , Patrick Totzke , Di-De Yen

We study the question of what is computable by Turing machines equipped with time travel into the past; i.e., with Deutschian closed timelike curves (CTCs) having no bound on their width or length. An alternative viewpoint is that we study…

In 1978 Sakoda and Sipser raised the question of the cost, in terms of size of representations, of the transformation of two-way and one-way nondeterministic automata into equivalent two-way deterministic automata. Despite all the attempts,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Bruno Guillon , Giovanni Pighizzini , Luca Prigioniero , Daniel Průša

We discuss the possibility of constructing a function that validates the definition or not definition of the partial recursive functions of one variable. This is a topic in computability theory, which was first approached by Alan M. Turing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Abel Luis Peralta

We study randomness beyond $\Pi^1_1$-randomness and its Martin-L\"of type variant, introduced in \cite{MR2340241} and further studied in \cite{Continuous-higher-randomness}. The class given by the infinite time Turing machines (\ITTM s),…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Merlin Carl , Philipp Schlicht

Nondeterministic choice is a useful program construct that provides a way to describe the behaviour of a program without specifying the details of possible implementations. It supports the stepwise refinement of programs, a method that has…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Yuan Feng , Yingte Xu

Various kinds of infinitary operations satisfying forms of associativity have been considered in the literature by various authors, including A. Tarski, C. Karp, J. H. Conway, D. Krob, N. Bedon, and C. Rispal. Applications include the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Paolo Lipparini

The first part of the paper is an introduction to the theory of probabilistic concurrent systems under a partial order semantics. Key definitions and results are given and illustrated on examples. The second part includes contributions. We…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Samy Abbes