Decision times of infinite computations
Logic
2022-01-25 v4 Logic in Computer Science
Abstract
The decision time of an infinite time algorithm is the supremum of its halting times over all real inputs. The decision time of a set of reals is the least decision time of an algorithm that decides the set; semidecision times of semidecidable sets are defined similary. It is not hard to see that is the maximal decision time of sets of reals. Our main results determine the supremum of countable decision times as and that of countable semidecision times as , where and denote the suprema of - and -definable ordinals, respectively, over . We further compute analogous suprema for singletons.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2011.04942,
title = {Decision times of infinite computations},
author = {Merlin Carl and Philipp Schlicht and Philip Welch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.04942},
year = {2022}
}