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Topological arguments for Kolmogorov complexity

2012/06/30 by Alexander Shen, Andrei Romashchenko · 1 citation
Computer Science · Mathematics · #cs.CC #cs.DM #cs.IT #math.IT

paper · pdf · doi:10.4204/eptcs.90.10

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Abstract

We present several application of simple topological arguments in problems of Kolmogorov complexity. Basically we use the standard fact from topology that the disk is simply connected. It proves to be enough to construct strings with some nontrivial algorithmic properties.

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