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    Computable de Finetti measures

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    We prove a computable version of de Finetti's theorem on exchangeable sequences of real random variables. As a consequence, exchangeable stochastic processes expressed in probabilistic functional programming languages can be automatically rewritten as procedures that do not modify non-local state. Along the way, we prove that a distribution on the unit interval is computable if and only if its moments are uniformly computable.Comment: 32 pages. Final journal version; expanded somewhat, with minor corrections. To appear in Annals of Pure and Applied Logic. Extended abstract appeared in Proceedings of CiE '09, LNCS 5635, pp. 218-23

    Complexity vs Energy: Theory of Computation and Theoretical Physics

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    This paper is a survey dedicated to the analogy between the notions of {\it complexity} in theoretical computer science and {\it energy} in physics. This analogy is not metaphorical: I describe three precise mathematical contexts, suggested recently, in which mathematics related to (un)computability is inspired by and to a degree reproduces formalisms of statistical physics and quantum field theory.Comment: 23 pages. Talk at the satellite conference to ECM 2012, "QQQ Algebra, Geometry, Information", Tallinn, July 9-12, 201

    Turing computability, probability, and prime numbers

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    We present an original theoretical approach to prove that π(n)−Li(n)=o(M(n)Li(n))\pi (n)-Li(n)=o(M(n)\sqrt{Li(n)}) almost certainly stands, where π(n)\pi (n) is the number of primes not greater than nn, Li(n)Li(n) is a logarithmic integral function, and M(n)M(n) is an arbitrary function such that M(n)→∞M(n)\rightarrow\infty.Comment: Revision of the contents over the whole range of the pape

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