Chaitin \(\Omega\) numbers, Solovay machines, and Gödel incompleteness. (Q1607291)

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Chaitin \(\Omega\) numbers, Solovay machines, and Gödel incompleteness.
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    Chaitin \(\Omega\) numbers, Solovay machines, and Gödel incompleteness. (English)
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    31 July 2002
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    Computably enumerable (c.e.) reals can be coded by Chaitin machines through their halting probabilities. Tuning Solovay's construction of a Chaitin universal machine for which ZFC (if arithmetically sound) cannot determine any single bit of the binary expansion of its halting probability, we show that every c.e.~random real is the halting probability of a universal Chaitin machine for which ZFC cannot determine more than its initial block of 1 bits -- as soon as you get a 0, it is all over. Finally, a constructive version of Chaitin information-theoretic incompleteness theorem is proven.
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    Computably enumerable real
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    Chaitin machine
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    Random real
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    Information-theoretic incompleteness
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