English
Related papers

Related papers: Kolmogorov complexity as a combinatorial tool

200 papers

The last theme of Kolmogorov's mathematics research was algorithmic theory of information, now often called Kolmogorov complexity theory. There are only two main publications of Kolmogorov (1965 and 1968-1969) on this topic. So Kolmogorov's…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Alexey Semenov , Alexander Shen , Nikolay Vereshchagin

Kolmogorov complexity and algorithmic probability are defined only up to an additive resp. multiplicative constant, since their actual values depend on the choice of the universal reference computer. In this paper, we analyze a natural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-29 Markus Mueller

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

We initiate the theory of communication complexity of individual inputs held by the agents, rather than worst-case or average-case. We consider total, partial, and partially correct protocols, one-way versus two-way, with and without help…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Harry Buhrman , Hartmut Klauck , Nikolai Vereshchagin , Paul Vitanyi

Algorithmic statistics studies explanations of observed data that are good in the algorithmic sense: an explanation should be simple i.e. should have small Kolmogorov complexity and capture all the algorithmically discoverable regularities…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Alexey Milovanov

By using the properties of the uniformly distributed sequences of real numbers on $(0,1)$, a short proof of a certain version of Kolmogorov strong law of large numbers is presented which essentially differs from Kolmogorov's original proof.

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-13 Gogi R. Pantsulaia

We prove a Kolmogorov complexity variant of the birthday paradox. Sufficiently sized random subsets of strings are guaranteed to have two members x and y with low K(x/y). To prove this, we first show that the minimum conditional Kolmogorov…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Samuel Epstein

We prove the formula C(a,b) = K(a|C(a,b)) + C(b|a,C(a,b)) + O(1) that expresses the plain complexity of a pair in terms of prefix and plain conditional complexities of its components.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-02-16 Bruno Bauwens , Alexander Shen

The information in an individual finite object (like a binary string) is commonly measured by its Kolmogorov complexity. One can divide that information into two parts: the information accounting for the useful regularity present in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Paul Vitanyi

Although procedural generation is popular among game developers, academic research on the topic has primarily focused on new applications, with some research into empirical analysis. In this paper we relate theoretical work in information…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Younès Rabii , Michael Cook

We have proposed novel measures based on the Kolmogorov complexity for use in complex system behavior studies and time series analysis. We have considered background of the Kolmogorov complexity and also we have discussed meaning of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-07 Dragutin T. Mihailovic , Gordan Mimic , Emilija Nikolic-Djoric , Ilija Arsenic

In this paper, we revisit a central concept in Kolmogorov complexity in which one would equate program-size complexity with information content. Despite the fact that Kolmogorov complexity has been widely accepted as an objective measure of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Fouad B. Chedid

A selection of the relevant theorems of Probability Theory that comes directly from Kolmogorov's axioms, Set Theory basic results, definitions and rules of inference are listed and proven in a systematic approach, aiming the student who…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Diego J. Raposo

Hartmanis used Kolmogorov complexity to provide an alternate proof of the classical result of Baker, Gill, and Solovay that there is an oracle relative to which P is not NP. We refine the technique to strengthen the result, constructing an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-14 David Doty

Different observers do not have to agree on how they identify a quantum system. We explore a condition based on algorithmic complexity that allows a system to be described as an objective "element of reality". We also suggest an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-25 Alexei Grinbaum

We survey diverse approaches to the notion of information: from Shannon entropy to Kolmogorov complexity. Two of the main applications of Kolmogorov complexity are presented: randomness and classification. The survey is divided in two parts…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-10-15 Marie Ferbus-Zanda

We study the compressibility of enumerations in the context of Kolmogorov complexity, focusing on strong and weak forms of compression and their gain: the amount of auxiliary information embedded in the compressed enumeration. The existence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 George Barmpalias , Xiaoyan Zhang , Bohua Zhan

The multitime probability distributions obtained by repeatedly probing a quantum system via the measurement of an observable generally violate Kolmogorov's consistency property. Therefore, one cannot interpret such distributions as the…

In this paper we give a definition for quantum Kolmogorov complexity. In the classical setting, the Kolmogorov complexity of a string is the length of the shortest program that can produce this string as its output. It is a measure of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andre Berthiaume , Wim van Dam , Sophie Laplante

The Kolmogorov complexity of a string is the length of its shortest description. We define a second quantised Kolmogorov complexity where the length of a description is defined to be the average length of its superposition. We discuss this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-17 Caroline Rogers , Vlatko Vedral , Rajagopal Nagarajan