Type-2 Computability and Moore's Recursive Functions

  • Authors:
  • Akitoshi Kawamura

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Regarding effectivity of functions on the reals, there have been several proposed models of analog, continuous-time computation, as opposed to the digital, discrete nature of the type-2 computability. We study one of them, Moore's real (primitive) recursive functions, whose definition mimics the classical characterization of recursive functions on N by the closure properties. We show that the class of type-2 computable real functions falls between Moore's classes of primitive recursive and recursive functions.