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We analyze the effective content of countable, second countable topological spaces by directly calculating the complexity of several topologically defined index sets. We focus on the separation principles, calibrating an arithmetic…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Andrew DeLapo , David Gonzalez

We examine various categorical structures that can and cannot be constructed. We show that total computable functions can be mimicked by constructible functors. More generally, whatever can be done by a Turing machine can be constructed by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Noson S. Yanofsky

This paper investigates the effective categoricity of ultrahomogeneous structures. It is shown that any computable ultrahomogeneous structure is $\Delta^0_2$ categorical. A structure A is said to be weakly ultrahomogeneous if there is a…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Francis Adams , Douglas Cenzer

In this manuscript, we derive the principle of conservation of computational complexity. We measure computational complexity as the number of binary computations (decisions) required to solve a problem. Every problem then defines a unique…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Gerald Friedland , Alfredo Metere

Computability on uncountable sets has no standard formalization, unlike that on countable sets, which is given by Turing machines. Some of the approaches to define computability in these sets rely on order-theoretic structures to translate…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Pedro Hack , Daniel A. Braun , Sebastian Gottwald

We define and investigate HC-forcing invariant formulas of set theory, whose interpretations in the hereditarily countable sets are well behaved under forcing extensions. This leads naturally to a notion of cardinality ||Phi|| for sentences…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-11-16 Douglas Ulrich , Richard Rast , Michael C. Laskowski

Open Answer Set Programming (OASP) is an attractive framework for integrating ontologies and rules. In general OASP is undecidable. In previous work we provided a tableau-based algorithm for satisfiability checking w.r.t. forest logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-11-30 Cristina Feier , Stijn Heymans

If no optimal propositional proof system exists, we (and independently Pudl\'ak) prove that ruling out length $t$ proofs of any unprovable sentence is hard. This mapping from unprovable to hard-to-prove sentences powerfully translates facts…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Hunter Monroe

In previous work, we have combined computable structure theory and algorithmic learning theory to study which families of algebraic structures are learnable in the limit (up to isomorphism). In this paper, we measure the computational power…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Nikolay Bazhenov , Luca San Mauro

A set of integers $A$ is computably encodable if every infinite set of integers has an infinite subset computing $A$. By a result of Solovay, the computably encodable sets are exactly the hyperarithmetic ones. In this paper, we extend this…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Benoit Monin , Ludovic Patey

Suppose $p \geq 1$ is a computable real. We extend previous work of Clanin, Stull, and McNicholl by classifying the computable $L^p$ spaces whose underlying measure spaces are atomic but not purely atomic. In addition, we determine the…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Tyler Brown , Timothy H. McNicholl

We study the complexity of automatic structures via well-established concepts from both logic and model theory, including ordinal heights (of well-founded relations), Scott ranks of structures, and Cantor-Bendixson ranks (of trees). We…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-09-22 Bakhadyr Khoussainov , Mia Minnes

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

What is computable with limited resources? How can we verify the correctness of computations? How to measure computational power with precision? Despite the immense scientific and engineering progress in computing, we still have only…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Attila Egri-Nagy

A relatively new topic in computability theory is the study of notions of computation that are robust against mistakes on some kind of small set. However, despite the recent popularity of this topic relatively foundational questions about…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Peter M. Gerdes

We give a characterization of the strong degrees of categoricity of computable structures greater or equal to $\mathbf 0''$. They are precisely the \emph{treeable} degrees -- the least degrees of paths through computable trees -- that…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-05-12 Barbara F. Csima , Dino Rossegger

Sophistication and logical depth are two measures that express how complicated the structure in a string is. Sophistication is defined as the minimal complexity of a computable function that defines a two-part description for the string…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Luís Antunes , Bruno Bauwens , Andre Souto , Andreia Teixeira

We initiate the study of computable presentations of real and complex C*-algebras under the program of effective metric structure theory. With the group situation as a model, we develop corresponding notions of recursive presentations and…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Alec Fox

We investigate conditions under which a co-computably enumerable closed set in a computable metric space is computable and prove that in each locally computable computable metric space each co-computably enumerable compact manifold with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Zvonko Iljazovic

We define constructive truth for arithmetic and for intuitionistic analysis, and investigate its properties. We also prove that the set of constructively true (first order) arithmetical statements is Pi-1-2 and Sigma-1-2 hard, and we…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dmytro Taranovsky