A characterization of c.e. random reals

  • Authors:
  • Cristian S. Calude

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A real α is computably enumerable if it is the limit of a computable, increasing, converging sequence of rationals. A real α is random if its binary expansion is a random sequence. Our aim is to offer a self-contained proof, based on the papers (Calude et al., in: M. Morvan, C. Meinel, D. Krob (Eds.), Proc. 15th Symp. on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, Paris, Springer, Berlin, 1998, pp. 596-606; Chaitin, J. Assoc. Comput. Mach. 22 (1975) 329; Slaman, manuscript, 14 December 1998, 2 pp.; Solovay, unpublished manuscript, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, May 1975, 215 pp.), of the following theorem: a real is c.e. and random if and only if it is a Chaitin&Ohgr; real, i.e., the halting probability of some universal self-delimiting Turing machine.