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Using Almost-Everywhere Theorems from Analysis to Study Randomness

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10 Oct 2016, published online
29 Feb 2016, Accepted by BSL
May 2015, Resubmitted.
3 Nov 2014. Submitted

Title
Using Almost-Everywhere Theorems from Analysis to Study Randomness
(with Jing Zhang and Andre Nies)

Type
Full paper

Journal
The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Volume 22, Issue 3
September 2016, pp. 305-331
arXiv
The latest version is here.

Abstract
We study algorithmic randomness notions via effective versions of almost-everywhere theorems from analysis and ergodic theory. The effectivization is in terms of objects described by a computably enumerable set, such as lower semicomputable functions. The corresponding randomness notions are slightly stronger than Martin-Lo ̈f (ML) randomness. We establish several equivalences. Given a ML-random real z, the additional randomness strengths needed for the following are equivalent.
(1) all effectively closed classes containing z have density 1 at z.
(2) all nondecreasing functions with uniformly left-c.e. increments are differentiable at z.
(3) z is a Lebesgue point of each lower semicomputable integrable function.
We also consider convergence of left-c.e. martingales, and convergence in the sense of Birkhoff’s pointwise ergodic theorem. Lastly we study randomness notions for density of $\Pi^0_n$ and $\Sigma^1_1$ classes.

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Reducibilities relating to Schnorr randomness

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22 Sep 2014. Accepted to publish in TOCS
24 Mar 2014. Submitted

Title
Reducibilities relating to Schnorr randomness

Type
Full paper

Journal
Theory of Computing Systems, 58(3), 441-462, 2016.
DOI: 10.1007/s00224-014-9583-3

Abstract
Some measures of randomness have been introduced for Martin- L ̈of randomness such as K-reducibility, C-reducibility and vL-reducibility. In this paper we study Schnorr-randomness versions of these reducibilities. In particular, we characterize the computably-traceable reducibility via relative Schnorr randomness, which was asked in Nies’ book (Problem 8.4.22). We also show that Schnorr reducibility implies uniform-Schnorr-randomness version of vL-reducibility, which is the Schnorr-randomness version of the result that K-reducibility implies vL-reducibility.

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