Title
Depth as Randomness Deficiency
Abstract
Depth of an object concerns a tradeoff between computation time and excess of program length over the shortest program length required to obtain the object. It gives an unconditional lower bound on the computation time from a given program in absence of auxiliary information. Variants known as logical depth and computational depth are expressed in Kolmogorov complexity theory. We derive quantitative relation between logical depth and computational depth and unify the different depth notions by relating them to A. Kolmogorov and L. Levin’s fruitful notion of randomness deficiency. Subsequently, we revisit the computational depth of infinite strings, study the notion of super deep sequences and relate it with other approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/s00224-009-9171-0
Theory of Computing Systems \/ Mathematical Systems Theory
Keywords
Field
DocType
Kolmogorov complexity,Computational depth
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Kolmogorov complexity,Upper and lower bounds,Logical depth,Mathematics,Computational resource,Randomness,Computation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
45
4
1432-4350
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.46
12
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luis Filipe Coelho Antunes1268.42
Armando Matos2163.73
Andre Souto3299.29
Paul Vitányi42130287.76