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Infinite time Turing machines and an application to the hierarchy of equivalence relations on the reals
We describe the basic theory of infinite time Turing machines and some recent
developments, including the infinite time degree theory, infinite time
complexity theory, and infinite time computable model theory. We focus
particularly on the application of infinite time Turing machines to the
analysis of the hierarchy of equivalence relations on the reals, in analogy
with the theory arising from Borel reducibility. We define a notion of infinite
time reducibility, which lifts much of the Borel theory into the class
in a satisfying way.Comment: Submitted to the Effective Mathematics of the Uncountable Conference,
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Towards computable analysis on the generalised real line
In this paper we use infinitary Turing machines with tapes of length
and which run for time as presented, e.g., by Koepke \& Seyfferth, to
generalise the notion of type two computability to , where
is an uncountable cardinal with . Then we start the
study of the computational properties of , a real closed
field extension of of cardinality , defined by the
first author using surreal numbers and proposed as the candidate for
generalising real analysis. In particular we introduce representations of
under which the field operations are computable. Finally we
show that this framework is suitable for generalising the classical Weihrauch
hierarchy. In particular we start the study of the computational strength of
the generalised version of the Intermediate Value Theorem
Products of effective topological spaces and a uniformly computable Tychonoff Theorem
This article is a fundamental study in computable analysis. In the framework
of Type-2 effectivity, TTE, we investigate computability aspects on finite and
infinite products of effective topological spaces. For obtaining uniform
results we introduce natural multi-representations of the class of all
effective topological spaces, of their points, of their subsets and of their
compact subsets. We show that the binary, finite and countable product
operations on effective topological spaces are computable. For spaces with
non-empty base sets the factors can be retrieved from the products. We study
computability of the product operations on points, on arbitrary subsets and on
compact subsets. For the case of compact sets the results are uniformly
computable versions of Tychonoff's Theorem (stating that every Cartesian
product of compact spaces is compact) for both, the cover multi-representation
and the "minimal cover" multi-representation
A Swiss Pocket Knife for Computability
This research is about operational- and complexity-oriented aspects of
classical foundations of computability theory. The approach is to re-examine
some classical theorems and constructions, but with new criteria for success
that are natural from a programming language perspective.
Three cornerstones of computability theory are the S-m-ntheorem; Turing's
"universal machine"; and Kleene's second recursion theorem. In today's
programming language parlance these are respectively partial evaluation,
self-interpretation, and reflection. In retrospect it is fascinating that
Kleene's 1938 proof is constructive; and in essence builds a self-reproducing
program.
Computability theory originated in the 1930s, long before the invention of
computers and programs. Its emphasis was on delimiting the boundaries of
computability. Some milestones include 1936 (Turing), 1938 (Kleene), 1967
(isomorphism of programming languages), 1985 (partial evaluation), 1989 (theory
implementation), 1993 (efficient self-interpretation) and 2006 (term register
machines).
The "Swiss pocket knife" of the title is a programming language that allows
efficient computer implementation of all three computability cornerstones,
emphasising the third: Kleene's second recursion theorem. We describe
experiments with a tree-based computational model aiming for both fast program
generation and fast execution of the generated programs.Comment: In Proceedings Festschrift for Dave Schmidt, arXiv:1309.455
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