Depth as randomness deficiency

Authors
Publication date 2009
Journal Theory of Computing Systems
Volume | Issue number 45 | 4
Pages (from-to) 724-739
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract
Depth of an object concerns a tradeoff between computation time and excess of program length over the shortest program length required to obtain the object. It gives an unconditional lower bound on the computation time from a given program in absence of auxiliary information. Variants known as logical depth and computational depth are expressed in Kolmogorov complexity theory.
We derive quantitative relation between logical depth and computational depth and unify the different depth notions by relating them to A. Kolmogorov and L. Levin’s fruitful notion of randomness deficiency. Subsequently, we revisit the computational depth of infinite strings, study the notion of super deep sequences and relate it with other approaches.
Document type Article
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00224-009-9171-0
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