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Symmetry for transfinite computability

Logic 2023-02-14 v1

Abstract

Finite Turing computation has a fundamental symmetry between inputs, outputs, programs, time, and storage space. Standard models of transfinite computational break this symmetry; we consider ways to recover it and study the resulting model of computation. This model exhibits the same symmetry as finite Turing computation in universes constructible from a set of ordinals, but that statement is independent of von Neumann-G\"odel-Bernays class theory.

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@article{arxiv.2302.06444,
  title  = {Symmetry for transfinite computability},
  author = {Lorenzo Galeotti and Ethan S. Lewis and Benedikt Löwe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.06444},
  year   = {2023}
}
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