On the information carried by programs about the objects they compute (Q1693999)
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On the information carried by programs about the objects they compute (English)
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1 February 2018
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The paper asks and answers the following question: Is it possible to characterise the additional useful information contained in a program computing an object as compared with the object itself? The authors prove that bounding the Kolmogorov complexity of the object is the only additional useful information.
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Markov-computable
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Kolmogorov complexity
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Ershov topology
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