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RANDOMNESS NOTIONS AND REVERSE MATHEMATICS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2019

ANDRÉ NIES  and
PAUL SHAFER
ANDRÉ NIES
Affiliation:
SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND PRIVATE BAG92019AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND E-mail: [email protected]: https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~nies/
PAUL SHAFER
Affiliation:
SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS LEEDS, LS2 9JT, UK E-mail: [email protected]: http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~matpsh/
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Abstract

We investigate the strength of a randomness notion ${\cal R}$ as a set-existence principle in second-order arithmetic: for each Z there is an X that is ${\cal R}$-random relative to Z. We show that the equivalence between 2-randomness and being infinitely often C-incompressible is provable in $RC{A_0}$. We verify that $RC{A_0}$ proves the basic implications among randomness notions: 2-random $\Rightarrow$ weakly 2-random $\Rightarrow$ Martin-Löf random $\Rightarrow$ computably random $\Rightarrow$ Schnorr random. Also, over $RC{A_0}$ the existence of computable randoms is equivalent to the existence of Schnorr randoms. We show that the existence of balanced randoms is equivalent to the existence of Martin-Löf randoms, and we describe a sense in which this result is nearly optimal.

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Primary 03B3003D3203F3568Q30computability theoryreverse mathematicsalgorithmic randomnessKolmogorov complexity
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 85 , Issue 1 , March 2020 , pp. 271 - 299
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Copyright © The Association for Symbolic Logic 2019 

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