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2005 Program Size Complexity for Possibly Infinite Computations
Verónica Becher, Santiago Figueira, André Nies, Silvana Picchi
Notre Dame J. Formal Logic 46(1): 51-64 (2005). DOI: 10.1305/ndjfl/1107220673

Abstract

We define a program size complexity function $H^\infty$ as a variant of the prefix-free Kolmogorov complexity, based on Turing monotone machines performing possibly unending computations. We consider definitions of randomness and triviality for sequences in ${\{0,1\}}^\omega$ relative to the $H^\infty$ complexity. We prove that the classes of Martin-Löf random sequences and $H^\infty$-random sequences coincide and that the $H^\infty$-trivial sequences are exactly the recursive ones. We also study some properties of $H^\infty$ and compare it with other complexity functions. In particular, $H^\infty$ is different from $H^A$, the prefix-free complexity of monotone machines with oracle A.

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Verónica Becher. Santiago Figueira. André Nies. Silvana Picchi. "Program Size Complexity for Possibly Infinite Computations." Notre Dame J. Formal Logic 46 (1) 51 - 64, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1305/ndjfl/1107220673

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Published: 2005
First available in Project Euclid: 31 January 2005

zbMATH: 1102.68036
MathSciNet: MR2131546
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1305/ndjfl/1107220673

Subjects:
Primary: 68Q05 , 68Q30

Keywords: infinite computations , Kolmogorov complexity , program size complexity

Rights: Copyright © 2005 University of Notre Dame

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