Representation of left-computable ε-random reals

  • Authors:
  • Cristian S. Calude;Nicholas J. Hay;Frank Stephan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand;Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand;Department of Mathematics and School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer and System Sciences
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce the notion of @e-universal prefix-free Turing machine (@e is a computable real in (0,1]) and study its halting probability. The main result is the extension of the representability theorem for left-computable random reals to the case of @e-random reals: a real is left-computable @e-random iff it is the halting probability of an @e-universal prefix-free Turing machine. We also show that left-computable @e-random reals are provable @e-random in the Peano Arithmetic. The theory developed here parallels to a large extent the classical theory, but not completely. For example, random reals are Borel normal (in any base), but for @e@?(0,1), some @e-random reals do not contain even arbitrarily long runs of 0s.