Prefix-like complexities and computability in the limit

Alexey Chernov, Juergen Schmidhuber

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Abstract

Computability in the limit represents the non-plus-ultra of constructive describability. It is well known that the limit computable functions on naturals are exactly those computable with the oracle for the halting problem. However, prefix (Kolmogorov) complexities defined with respect to these two models may differ. We introduce and compare several natural variations of prefix complexity definitions based on generalized Turing machines embodying the idea of limit computability, as well as complexities based on oracle machines, for both finite and infinite sequences.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSecond Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2006
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherSpringer
Pages85-93
Number of pages9
Volume3988
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Dec 2006
EventSecond Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2006 - Swansea, UK, June 30-July 5, 2006
Duration: 31 Dec 2006 → …

Conference

ConferenceSecond Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2006
Period31/12/06 → …

Bibliographical note

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11780342_9

Keywords

  • Kolmogorov complexity
  • limit computability
  • generalized Turing machine
  • non-halting computation

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