The Kolmogorov complexity of infinite words

  • Authors:
  • Ludwig Staiger

  • Affiliations:
  • Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Informatik, von-Seckendorff-Platz 1, D-06099 Halle, Saale, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present a brief survey of results on relations between the Kolmogorov complexity of infinite strings and several measures of information content (dimensions) known from dimension theory, information theory or fractal geometry. Special emphasis is placed on bounds on the complexity of strings in constructively given subsets of the Cantor space. Finally, we compare the Kolmogorov complexity to the subword complexity of infinite strings.