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Using a result of recursive function theory and results of the complex analysis of Takeuti, which is based on a type theory and the work of Kreisel, and which gives a conservative extension of first order Peano arithmetic (PA), assuming all…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Kevin Broughan

In this paper, we interpret NDTM (NonDeterministic Turing Machine) used to define NP by tracing to the source of NP. Originally NP was defined as the class of problems solvable in polynomial time by a NDTM in the theorem of Cook, where the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-03-04 JianMing Zhou , Yu Li

Consider a universal Turing machine that produces a partial or total function (or a binary stream), based on the answers to the binary queries that it makes during the computation. We study the probability that the machine will produce a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-04-28 George Barmpalias , Douglas Cenzer , Christopher P. Porter

Morrill and Valentin in the paper "Computational coverage of TLG: Nonlinearity" considered an extension of the Lambek calculus enriched by a so-called "exponential" modality. This modality behaves in the "relevant" style, that is, it allows…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Max Kanovich , Stepan Kuznetsov , Andre Scedrov

Using nonstandard analysis, we will extend the classical Turing machines into the internal Turing machines. The internal Turing machines have the capability to work with infinite ($*$-finite) number of bits while keeping the finite…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ken Loo

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

The halting problem is undecidable --- but can it be solved for "most" inputs? This natural question was considered in a number of papers, in different settings. We revisit their results and show that most of them can be easily proven in a…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-01-11 Laurent Bienvenu , Damien Desfontaines , Alexander Shen

The problem of attempting to learn the mapping between data and labels is the crux of any machine learning task. It is, therefore, of interest to the machine learning community on practical as well as theoretical counts to consider the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Sairaam Venkatraman , S Balasubramanian , R Raghunatha Sarma

I'll discuss how Goedel's paradox "This statement is false/unprovable" yields his famous result on the limits of axiomatic reasoning. I'll contrast that with my work, which is based on the paradox of "The first uninteresting positive whole…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2007-05-23 G. J. Chaitin

Recently a great deal of attention has focused on quantum computation following a sequence of results suggesting that quantum computers are more powerful than classical probabilistic computers. Following Shor's result that factoring and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-26 Charles H. Bennett , Ethan Bernstein , Gilles Brassard , Umesh Vazirani

Motivated by the theory of proof complexity generators we consider the following $\Sigma^p_2$ search problem $\mbox{DD}_P$ determined by a propositional proof system $P$: given a $P$-proof $\pi$ of a disjunction $\bigvee_i {\alpha}_i$, no…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jan Krajicek

A decision problem is called parameterized if its input is a pair of strings. One of these strings is referred to as a parameter. The problem: given a propositional logic program P and a non-negative integer k, decide whether P has a stable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zbigniew Lonc , Miroslaw Truszczynski

The Church-Turing thesis asserts that if a partial strings-to-strings function is effectively computable then it is computable by a Turing machine. In the 1930s, when Church and Turing worked on their versions of the thesis, there was a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Yuri Gurevich

We study the Diophantine problem (decidability of finite systems of equations) in different classes of finitely generated solvable groups (nilpotent, polycyclic, metabelian, free solvable, etc), which satisfy some natural…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Albert Garreta , Alexei Miasnikov , Denis Ovchinnikov

Using a novel rewriting problem, we show that several natural decision problems about finite automata are undecidable (i.e., recursively unsolvable). In contrast, we also prove three related problems are decidable. We apply one result to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Jörg Endrullis , Jeffrey Shallit , Tim Smith

We study a natural measurable selection problem for which the standard uniformisation theorems do not seem to apply directly, yet a Borel selector exists. More precisely, we consider families of finite dimensional functions that admit…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Eugenio Clerico

Consider the following two fundamental open problems in complexity theory: (a) Does a hard-on-average language in NP imply the existence of one-way functions?, or (b) Does a hard-on-average language in NP imply a hard-on-average problem in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Rafael Pass , Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam

This paper outlines new paradigms for real analysis and computability theory in the recently proposed non-Aristotelian finitary logic (NAFL). Constructive real analysis in NAFL (NRA) is accomplished by a translation of diagrammatic concepts…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Radhakrishnan Srinivasan , H. P. Raghunandan

This article presents a general solution to the problem of computational complexity. First, it gives a historical introduction to the problem since the revival of the foundational problems of mathematics at the end of the 19th century.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Rami Zaidan

We first partly develop a mathematical notion of stable consistency intended to reflect the actual consistency property of human beings. Then we give a generalization of the first and second G\"odel incompleteness theorem to stably…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Yasha Savelyev