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The resolution of the P vs. NP problem, a cornerstone in computational theory, remains elusive despite extensive exploration through mathematical logic and algorithmic theory. This paper takes a novel approach by integrating information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Florian Neukart

The science of complexity is far from being fully understood and even its foundations are not well established. On the other hand, during the last decade, the random motion of particles or waves - the so-called diffusion - has been known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-14 Guilherme R. Rezende , Luciano C. Lapas , Fernando A. Oliveira

The emergence of a complex, large-scale organisation of cosmic matter into the Cosmic Web is a beautiful exemplification of how complexity can be produced by simple initial conditions and simple physical laws. In the epoch of Big Data in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Franco Vazza

We revisit the fundamentals of Circuit Complexity and the nature of efficient computation from a fresh perspective. We present a framework for understanding Circuit Complexity through the lens of Information Theory with analogies to results…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Luke Tonon

The paper serves as the first contribution towards the development of the theory of efficiency: a unifying framework for the currently disjoint theories of information, complexity, communication and computation. Realizing the defining…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Roman V. Yampolskiy

A discussion of fundamental aspects of quantum theory is presented, stressing the essential role of "events". (Abstract by Erhard Seiler -- see afterword)

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-18 Rudolf Haag

Even today, the concept of entropy is perceived by many as quite obscure. The main difficulty is analyzed as being fundamentally due to the subjectivity and anthropocentrism of the concept that prevent us to have a sufficient distance to…

General Physics · Physics 2022-10-21 Didier Lairez

This is an expository paper about the Borel complexity of structure and classification theorems. It sorts several classical problems relative to known benchmarks of complexity. As a corollary various problems proposed by people such as von…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-04-14 Matthew Foreman

Linear logic was conceived in 1987 by Girard and, in contrast to classical logic, restricts the usage of the structural inference rules of weakening and contraction. With this, atoms of the logic are no longer interpreted as truth, but as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Florian Chudigiewitsch

We collect here various conjectures on congruences made by the author in a series of papers, some of which involve binary quadratic forms and other advanced theories. Part A consists of 100 unsolved conjectures of the author while…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Zhi-Wei Sun

The necessary information for specifying a complex system may not be completely accessible to us, i.e., to mathematical treatments. This is not to be confounded with the incompleteness of our knowledge about whatever systems or nature,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Qiuping A. Wang

In this position paper we discuss three main shortcomings of existing approaches to counterfactual causality from the computer science perspective, and sketch lines of work to try and overcome these issues: (1) causality definitions should…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Gregor Gössler , Oleg Sokolsky , Jean-Bernard Stefani

Much of the controversy about methods for automated decision making has focused on specific calculi for combining beliefs or propagating uncertainty. We broaden the debate by (1) exploring the constellation of secondary tasks surrounding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-11 Michael P. Wellman , David Heckerman

We describe the Turing Machine, list some of its many influences on the theory of computation and complexity of computations, and illustrate its importance.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-08-26 P. M. B. Vitanyi

News articles of varying degrees of truthfulness and political alignment, and their influences on the political opinions of the media consumers are modeled as a Bayesian network incorporating a mixture of ideas from dual-reasoning models of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-18 In-Ho Yi

This is a survey of the diversity of problems in additive number theory. Equity requires the consideration of less currently popular problems, and suggests their inclusion in the additive canon. Of particular interest are problems about the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Melvyn B. Nathanson

In this article a revised, to some extent, version of the Information concept as utmost fundamental essence ("The Information and the Matter",v1) is presented - a little more logical grounds and may be of a philosophy, the correction and…

General Physics · Physics 2008-05-27 S. V. Shevchenko , V. V. Tokarevsky

The subject logic in computer science should entail proof theoretic applications. So the question arises whether open problems in computational complexity can be solved by advanced proof theoretic techniques. In particular, consider the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-12-09 L. Gordeev , E. H. Haeusler

We commend the authors for an exciting paper which provides a strong contribution to the emerging field of probabilistic numerics (PN). Below, we discuss aspects of prior modelling which need to be considered thoroughly in future work.

Computation · Statistics 2017-08-01 Francois-Xavier Briol , Jon Cockayne , Onur Teymur

We comment on a recent paper by D'Abramo [Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 25 (2005) 29], focusing on the author's statement that an algorithm can produce a list of strings containing at least one string whose algorithmic complexity is greater…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-11-09 David Poulin , Hugo Touchette