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This paper applies Algorithmic Information Theory to simple examples of replication processes to illustrate how replicating structures can generate and maintain order in a non equilibrium system. Variation in replicating structures enhances…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2008-11-12 Sean D Devine

Quantum computing is a new model of computation, based on quantum physics. Quantum computers can be exponentially faster than conventional computers for problems such as factoring. Besides full-scale quantum computers, more restricted…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Andris Ambainis , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

We study universality of geometric gauge sectors in the string landscape in the context of F-theory compactifications. A finite time construction algorithm is presented for $\frac43 \times 2.96 \times 10^{755}$ F-theory geometries that are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-20 James Halverson , Cody Long , Benjamin Sung

It is well known that without randomization, Byzantine agreement (BA) requires a linear number of rounds in the synchronous setting, while it is flat out impossible in the asynchronous setting. The primitive which allows to bypass the above…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Ran Cohen , Pouyan Forghani , Juan Garay , Rutvik Patel , Vassilis Zikas

A cryptarithm is a mathematical puzzle where given an arithmetic equation written with letters rather than numerals, a player must discover an assignment of numerals on letters that makes the equation hold true. In this paper, we propose a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Yuki Nozaki , Diptarama Hendrian , Ryo Yoshinaka , Takashi Horiyama , Ayumi Shinohara

We prove the following facts about the language recognition power of quantum Turing machines (QTMs) in the unbounded error setting: QTMs are strictly more powerful than probabilistic Turing machines for any common space bound $ s $…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-01-29 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz , A. C. Cem Say

We introduce a new type of generalized Turing machines (GTMs), which are intended as a tool for the mathematician who studies computability in Analysis. In a single tape cell a GTM can store a symbol, a real number, a continuous real…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-07-01 Nazanin Tavana , Klaus Weihrauch

Herein we survey the main results concerning quantum automata and machines with classical control. These machines were originally proposed by Sernadas et al in [37], during the FCT QuantLog project. First, we focus on the expressivity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Paulo Mateus , Daowen Qiu , Andre Souto

We show that there exists a universal quantum Turing machine (UQTM) that can simulate every other QTM until the other QTM has halted and then halt itself with probability one. This extends work by Bernstein and Vazirani who have shown that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Markus Mueller

Multiple algorithms are known for efficiently calculating the prefix probability of a string under a probabilistic context-free grammar (PCFG). Good algorithms for the problem have a runtime cubic in the length of the input string. However,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Franz Nowak , Ryan Cotterell

In many data analysis pipelines, a basic and time-consuming process is to produce join results and feed them into downstream tasks. Numerous enumeration algorithms have been developed for this purpose. To be a statistically meaningful…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Pengyu Chen , Zizheng Guo , Jianwei Yang , Dongjing Miao

Fast exact algorithms are known for Hamiltonian paths in undirected and directed bipartite graphs through elegant though involved algorithms that are quite different from each other. We devise algorithms that are simple and similar to each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-10 V. Arvind , Srijan Chakraborty , Samir Datta , Asif Khan

In the literature on Kleene algebra (KA), a number of variants have been proposed such as Kleene algebra with tests, commutative KA, bi-KA, and concurrent KA. The equational theories of some of these structures have then been studied in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Lukas Mulder , Damien Pous , Jana Wagemaker

Unambiguous automata are nondeterministic automata in which every word has at most one accepting run. In this paper we give a polynomial-time algorithm for model checking discrete-time Markov chains against \omega-regular specifications…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Christel Baier , Stefan Kiefer , Joachim Klein , David Müller , James Worrell

Turing's famous 'machine' model constitutes the first intuitively convincing framework for computing with real numbers. Kleene's computation schemes S1-S9 extend Turing's approach and provide a framework for computing with objects of any…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Dag Normann , Sam Sanders

We introduce the Non-commutative Subset Convolution - a convolution of functions useful when working with determinant-based algorithms. In order to compute it efficiently, we take advantage of Clifford algebras, a generalization of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Michał Włodarczyk

In this paper, we study the problem of computing the majority function by low-depth monotone circuits and a related problem of constructing low-depth sorting networks. We consider both the classical setting with elementary operations of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Natalia Dobrokhotova-Maikova , Alexander Kozachinskiy , Vladimir Podolskii

A 1976 theorem of Chaitin can be used to show that arbitrarily dense sets of lengths n have a paucity of trivial strings (only a bounded number of strings of length n having trivially low plain Kolmogorov complexities). We use the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-05-08 Jack H. Lutz

Combining the approaches made in works with Galeotti and Passmann, we define and study a notion of "almost sure" realizability with parameter-free ordinal Turing machines (OTMs). In particular, we show that, in contrast to the classical…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Merlin Carl

Recombining trinomial trees are a workhorse for modeling discrete-event systems in option pricing, logistics, and feedback control. Because each node stores a state-dependent quantity, a depth-$D$ tree naively yields $\mathcal{O}(3^{D})$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ethan Torres , Ramavarapu Sreenivas , Richard Sowers