Space-bounded online Kolmogorov complexity is additive
Computational Complexity
2025-07-15 v4 Information Theory
math.IT
Abstract
The even online Kolmogorov complexity of a string is the minimal length of a program that for all , on input outputs . The odd complexity is defined similarly. The sum of the odd and even complexities is called the dialogue complexity. In [Bauwens, 2014] it is proven that for all , there exist -bit for which the dialogue complexity exceeds the Kolmogorov complexity by . Let denote the Kolmogorov complexity with space bound~. Here, we prove that the space-bounded dialogue complexity with bound is at most , where .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2502.02777,
title = {Space-bounded online Kolmogorov complexity is additive},
author = {Bruno Bauwens and Maria Marchenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.02777},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
This update is just to add acknowledgements