Randomness notions and reverse mathematics
Paul Shafer (University of Leeds)
Abstract: There are many notions of algorithmic randomness in addition to classic Martin-Löf randomness, such as 2-randomness, weak 2-randomness, computable randomness, and Schnorr randomness. For each notion of randomness, we consider the statement "For every set Z, there is a set X that is random relative to Z" as a set-existence principle in second-order arithmetic, and we compare the strengths of these principles. We also show that a well-known characterization of 2-randomness in terms of incompressibility can be proved in RCA_0, which is non-trivial because it requires avoiding the use of $\Sigma^0_2$ bounding.
logic
Audience: researchers in the topic
Computability theory and applications
Series comments: Description: Computability theory, logic
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Organizers: | Damir Dzhafarov*, Vasco Brattka*, Ekaterina Fokina*, Ludovic Patey*, Takayuki Kihara, Noam Greenberg, Arno Pauly, Linda Brown Westrick |
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