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Infinite time Turing machines extend the classical Turing machine concept to transfinite ordinal time, thereby providing a natural model of infinitary computability that sheds light on the power and limitations of supertask algorithms.

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel David Hamkins

By nature, transmissible human knowledge is enumerable: every sentence, movie, audio record can be encoded in a sufficiently long string of 0's and 1's. The works of G\"odel, Turing and others showed that there are inherent limits and…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Frédéric Prost

We develop synthetic notions of oracle computability and Turing reducibility in the Calculus of Inductive Constructions (CIC), the constructive type theory underlying the Coq proof assistant. As usual in synthetic approaches, we employ a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Yannick Forster , Dominik Kirst , Niklas Mück

We prove a number of results motivated by global questions of uniformity in computability theory, and universality of countable Borel equivalence relations. Our main technical tool is a game for constructing functions on free products of…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Andrew S Marks

Infinite time Turing machine models with tape length $\alpha$, denoted $T_\alpha$, strengthen the machines of Hamkins and Kidder [HL00] with tape length $\omega$. A new phenomenon is that for some countable ordinals $\alpha$, some cells…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Merlin Carl , Benjamin Rin , Philipp Schlicht

We present an extension to the $\mathtt{mathlib}$ library of the Lean theorem prover formalizing the foundations of computability theory. We use primitive recursive functions and partial recursive functions as the main objects of study, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Mario Carneiro

We introduce two notions of effective reducibility for set-theoretical statements, based on computability with Ordinal Turing Machines (OTMs), one of which resembles Turing reducibility while the other is modelled after Weihrauch…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Merlin Carl

In this paper, we investigate the problem of synthesizing computable functions of infinite words over an infinite alphabet (data omega-words). The notion of computability is defined through Turing machines with infinite inputs which can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Léo Exibard , Emmanuel Filiot , Pierre-Alain Reynier

One of the elegant achievements in the history of proof theory is the characterization of the provably total recursive functions of an arithmetical theory by its proof-theoretic ordinal as a way to measure the time complexity of the…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Amirhossein Akbar Tabatabai

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

We introduce a notion of algorithmic randomness for algebraic fields. We prove the existence of a continuum of algebraic extensions of $\mathbb{Q}$ that are random according to our definition. We show that there are noncomputable algebraic…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Wesley Calvert , Valentina Harizanov , Alexandra Shlapentokh

We define a generalization of the Turing machine that computes on general sets. Our main theorem states that the class of generalized Turing machine computable functions and the class of Set Recursive functions coincide.

Logic · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Garvin Melles

We study the question of constructive approximation of the harmonic measure $\omega_x^\Omega$ of a connected bounded domain $\Omega$ with respect to a point $x\in\Omega$. In particular, using a new notion of computable harmonic…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Ilia Binder , Adi Glucksam , Cristobal Rojas , Michael Yampolsky

We introduce a model of infinitary computation which enhances the infinite time Turing machine model slightly but in a natural way by giving the machines the capability of detecting cardinal stages of computation. The computational strength…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-10-22 Miha E. Habič

We prove that, for every theory $T$ which is given by an ${\mathcal L}_{\omega_1,\omega}$ sentence, $T$ has less than $2^{\aleph_0}$ many countable models if and only if we have that, for every $X\in 2^\omega$ on a cone of Turing degrees,…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-06-07 Antonio Montalban

We introduce infinite time computable model theory, the computable model theory arising with infinite time Turing machines, which provide infinitary notions of computability for structures built on the reals R. Much of the finite time…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel David Hamkins , Russell Miller , Daniel Seabold , Steve Warner

A fundamental question is whether Turing machines can model all reasoning processes. We introduce an existence principle stating that the perception of the physical existence of any Turing program can serve as a physical causation for the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-17 Kurt Ammon

We study clockability for Ordinal Turing Machines (OTMs). In particular, we show that, in contrast to the situation for ITTMs, admissible ordinals can be OTM-clockable, that $\Sigma_{2}$-admissible ordinals are never OTM-clockable and that…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Merlin Carl

In this paper we use infinitary Turing machines with tapes of length $\kappa$ and which run for time $\kappa$ as presented, e.g., by Koepke \& Seyfferth, to generalise the notion of type two computability to $2^{\kappa}$, where $\kappa$ is…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Lorenzo Galeotti , Hugo Nobrega

We give an effective procedure that produces a natural number in its output from any natural number in its input, that is, it computes a total function. The elementary operations of the procedure are Turing-computable. The procedure has a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-06 Kurt Ammon