This work is a synthesis of recent advances in computable analysis with the theory of algorithmic randomness. In this theory, we try to strengthen probabilistic laws, i.e., laws which hold with probability 1, to laws which hold in their pointwise effective form -i.e., laws which hold for every individual constructively random point. In a tour-de-force, V'yugin [13] proved an effective version of the Ergodic Theorem which holds when the probability space, the transformation and the random variable are computable. However, V'yugin's Theorem cannot be directly applied to many examples, because all computable functions are continuous, and many applications use discontinuous functions.We prove a stronger effective ergodic theorem to include a restriction of Braverman's "graph-computable functions". We then use this to give effective ergodic proofs of the effective versions of Lévy-Kuzmin and Khinchin Theorems relating to continued fractions.
We use entropy rates and Schur concavity to prove that, for every integer k ≥ 2, every nonzero rational number q, and every real number α, the base-k expansions of α, q + α, and qα all have the same finite-state dimension and the same finite-state strong dimension. This extends, and gives a new proof of, Wall's 1949 theorem stating that the sum or product of a nonzero rational number and a Borel normal number is always Borel normal.
We use entropy rates and Schur concavity to prove that, for every integer k ≥ 2, every nonzero rational number q, and every real number α, the base-k expansions of α, q + α, and qα all have the same finite-state dimension and the same finite-state strong dimension. This extends, and gives a new proof of, Wall's 1949 theorem stating that the sum or product of a nonzero rational number and a Borel normal number is always Borel normal.
The van Lambalgen theorem is a surprising result in algorithmic information theory concerning the symmetry of relative randomness. It establishes that for any pair of infinite sequences A and B, B is Martin-Löf random and A is Martin-Löf random relative to B if and only if the interleaved sequence A ⊎ B is Martin-Löf random. This implies that A is relative random to B if and only if B is random relative to. This paper studies the validity of this phenomenon for different notions of time-bounded relative randomness.We prove the classical van Lambalgen theorem using martingales and Kolmogorov compressibility. We establish the failure of relative randomness in these settings, for both time-bounded martingales and time-bounded Kolmogorov complexity. We adapt our classical proofs when applicable to the timebounded setting, and construct counterexamples when they fail. The mode of failure of the theorem may depend on the notion of time-bounded randomness.
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