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DEEP ${\rm{\Pi }}_1^0 $ CLASSES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

LAURENT BIENVENU  and
CHRISTOPHER P. PORTER
LAURENT BIENVENU
Affiliation:
LABORATOIRE CNRS J.-V. PONCELET 119002, BOLSHOY VLASYEVSKIY PEREULOK 11 MOSCOW, RUSSIAE-mail: laurent.bienvenu@computability.fr
CHRISTOPHER P. PORTER
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA 32611- 8105, USAE-mail: cp@cpporter.com
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Abstract

A set of infinite binary sequences ${\cal C} \subseteq 2$ℕ is negligible if there is no partial probabilistic algorithm that produces an element of this set with positive probability. The study of negligibility is of particular interest in the context of ${\rm{\Pi }}_1^0 $ classes. In this paper, we introduce the notion of depth for ${\rm{\Pi }}_1^0 $ classes, which is a stronger form of negligibility. Whereas a negligible ${\rm{\Pi }}_1^0 $ class ${\cal C}$ has the property that one cannot probabilistically compute a member of ${\cal C}$ with positive probability, a deep ${\rm{\Pi }}_1^0 $ class ${\cal C}$ has the property that one cannot probabilistically compute an initial segment of a member of ${\cal C}$ with high probability. That is, the probability of computing a length n initial segment of a deep ${\rm{\Pi }}_1^0 $ class converges to 0 effectively in n.

We prove a number of basic results about depth, negligibility, and a variant of negligibility that we call tt-negligibility. We provide a number of examples of deep ${\rm{\Pi }}_1^0 $ classes that occur naturally in computability theory and algorithmic randomness. We also study deep classes in the context of mass problems, examine the relationship between deep classes and certain lowness notions in algorithmic randomness, and establish a relationship between members of deep classes and the amount of mutual information with Chaitin’s Ω.

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03D3268Q3003D80computability theoryalgorithmic randomnessΠ01.classesprobabilistic computation
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Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , June 2016 , pp. 249 - 286
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Copyright © The Association for Symbolic Logic 2016 

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