Process complexity and effective random tests
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Reconciling data compression and kolmogorov complexity
ICALP'07 Proceedings of the 34th international conference on Automata, Languages and Programming
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A few years ago a nice criterion of Martin-Löf randomness in terms of plain (neither prefix nor monotone) Kolmogorov complexity was found (among many other results, it is published in [5]). In fact Martin-Löf came rather close to the formulation of this criterion around 1970 (see [4] and [7], p. 98); a version of it that involves both plain and prefix complexity1 was proven by Gacs in 1980 ([2], remark after corollary 5.4 on p. 391). We provide a simple proof of this criterion that uses only elementary arguments very close to the original proof of Levin-Schnorr criterion of randomness (1973) in terms of monotone complexity ([3, 6]).