Elementarily computable functions over the real numbers and R-sub-recursive functions

  • Authors:
  • Olivier Bournez;Emmanuel Hainry

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA/LORIA, Villers Lès Nancy, France;INPL/LORIA, Villers Lès Nancy, France

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science - Automata, languages and programming: Algorithms and complexity (ICALP-A 2004)
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We present an analog and machine-independent algebraic characterization of elementarily computable functions over the real numbers in the sense of recursive analysis: we prove that they correspond to the smallest class of functions that contains some basic functions, and closed by composition, linear integration, and a simple limit schema.We generalize this result to all higher levels of the Grzegorczyk Hierarchy.This paper improves several previous partial characterizations and has a dual interest: • Concerning recursive analysis, our results provide machine-independent characterizations of natural classes of computable functions over the real numbers, allowing to define these classes without usual considerations on higher-order (type 2) Turing machines. • Concerning analog models, our results provide a characterization of the power of a natural class of analog models over the real numbers and provide new insights for understanding the relations between several analog computational models.