Exact Expression For Information Distance

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Publication date 31-10-2014
Edition 5
Number of pages 5
Publisher Ithaca, NY: ArXiv
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  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract Information distance can be defined between a string and a multiset of strings. We give an elementary proof for expressing the information distance in conditional Kolmogorov complexity. It is exact since the lower bound equals the upper bound up to a constant additive term.
Document type Working paper
Note Version 1 to 4 (2015), 6 to 9 (2015) and 10 (2017) also available on ArXiv.org
Language English
Related publication Exact Expression for Information Distance
Published at https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.7328v5
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