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This paper expands upon existing and introduces new formulations of Bennett's logical depth. In previously published work by Jordon and Moser, notions of finite-state-depth and pushdown-depth were examined and compared. These were based on finite-state transducers and information lossless pushdown compressors respectively. Unfortunately a full separation between the two notions was not established. This paper introduces a new formulation of pushdown-depth based on restricting how fast a pushdown compressor's stack can grow. This improved formulation allows us to do a full comparison by demonstrating the existence of sequences with high finite-state-depth and low pushdown-depth, and vice-versa. A new notion based on the Lempel-Ziv '78 algorithm is also introduced. Its difference from finite-state-depth is shown by demonstrating the existence of a Lempel-Ziv deep sequence that is not finitestate deep and vice versa. Lempel-Ziv-depth's difference from pushdown-depth is shown by building sequences that have a pushdown-depth of roughly 1/2 but low Lempel-Ziv depth, and a sequence with high Lempel-Ziv depth but low pushdown-depth. Properties of all three notions are also discussed and proved.

This paper compares the difference in performance of the Prediction by Partial Matching family of compressors (PPM * and the original PPM k ) and the Lempel-Ziv 78 (LZ) algorithm. We construct an infinite binary sequence whose worst-case compression ratio for PPM * is 0, while PPM k 's and LZ's best-case compression ratios are at least 1/2 and 1 respectively. This sequence is normal and is an enumeration of all binary strings in order of length, i.e. all strings of length 1 followed by all strings of length 2 and so on. The sequence is built using repetitions of de Bruijn strings of increasing order.

In this paper we introduce a new formulation of Bennett's logical depth based on pebble transducers. This notion is defined based on the difference between the minimal length descriptional complexity of strings from the perspective of finite-state transducers and pebble transducers. Our notion of pebble-depth satisfies the three fundamental properties of depth: i.e. easy sequences and random sequences are not deep, and the existence of a slow growth law. We also compare pebble-depth to other depth notions based on finite-state transducers, pushdown compressors and the Lempel-Ziv 78 compression algorithm. We first demonstrate how there exists a normal pebble-deep sequence even though there is no normal finite-statedeep sequence. We next build a sequence which has a pebble-depth level of roughly 1, a pushdown-depth level of roughly 1/2 and a finite-state-depth level of roughly 0. We then build a sequence which has pebble-depth level of roughly 1/2 and Lempel-Ziv-depth level of roughly 0.

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