ComputabilityPub Date : 2024-04-12DOI: 10.3233/com-230471
Patrick Uftring
{"title":"Weihrauch degrees without roots","authors":"Patrick Uftring","doi":"10.3233/com-230471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/com-230471","url":null,"abstract":"We answer the following question by Arno Pauly: “Is there a square root operator on the Weihrauch degrees?”. In fact, we show that there are uncountably many pairwise incomparable Weihrauch degrees without any roots. We also prove that the omniscience principles of LPO and LLPO do not have roots.","PeriodicalId":515920,"journal":{"name":"Computability","volume":"83 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140709303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ComputabilityPub Date : 2024-04-02DOI: 10.3233/com-230478
Makoto Fujiwara, Takako Nemoto
{"title":"Choice principles characterizing the difference between König’s lemma and weak König’s lemma in constructive reverse mathematics","authors":"Makoto Fujiwara, Takako Nemoto","doi":"10.3233/com-230478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/com-230478","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of constructive reverse mathematics, we characterize the difference between König’s lemma and weak König’s lemma by a particular fragment of the countable choice principle. Specifically, we show that König’s lemma can be decomposed into weak König’s lemma and the choice principle over a weak intuitionistic two-sorted arithmetic.","PeriodicalId":515920,"journal":{"name":"Computability","volume":"40 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140752147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ComputabilityPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.3233/com-230441
M. Anselmo, Manuela Flores, Maria Madonia
{"title":"Computing the index of non-isometric k-ary words with Hamming and Lee distance","authors":"M. Anselmo, Manuela Flores, Maria Madonia","doi":"10.3233/com-230441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/com-230441","url":null,"abstract":"Isometric words are those words whose occurrence as a factor in a transformation of a word u in a word v can be avoided, while preserving the minimal length of the transformation. Such minimal length refers to a distance between u and v. In the literature, isometric words have been considered with respect to the Hamming distance and the Lee distance; the former especially for binary words, while the latter for k-ary words, with k ⩾ 2. Ham- and Lee- isometric words have been characterized in terms of their overlaps with errors. In this paper, we give algorithms to decide whether a word f, of length n, is Ham- or Lee-isometric and provide evidence of the possible non-isometricity by returning a pair of words of minimal length whose transformation cannot avoid the factor f. Such a pair of words is called a pair of witnesses and the minimal length of the witnesses is called the index of f. The algorithms run in O ( n ) time with a preprocessing of O ( n ) time and space to construct a data structure that allows answering LCA queries on the suffix tree of f in constant time. The correctness of the algorithms lies on some theoretical results on the index and the witnesses of a word that are here presented. The investigation on the index is completed by the characterization of words with minimum/maximum index. All the results are shown referring to both Hamming and Lee distance.","PeriodicalId":515920,"journal":{"name":"Computability","volume":" 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140091350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ComputabilityPub Date : 2024-02-14DOI: 10.3233/com-230462
Daniel Misselbeck-Wessel, I. Petrakis
{"title":"Complemented subsets and Boolean-valued, partial functions","authors":"Daniel Misselbeck-Wessel, I. Petrakis","doi":"10.3233/com-230462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/com-230462","url":null,"abstract":"We study the two algebras of complemented subsets that were introduced in the constructive development of the Daniell approach to measure and integration within Bishop-style constructive mathematics. We present their main properties both for the so-called here categorical complemented subsets and for the extensional complemented subsets. We translate constructively the classical bijection between subsets and Boolean-valued, total functions by establishing a bijection between complemented subsets (categorical or extensional) and Boolean-valued, partial functions (categorical or extensional). The role of Myhill’s axiom of non-choice in the equivalence between categorical and extensional subsets is discussed. We introduce swap algebras of type (I) and (II) as an abstract version of Bishop’s algebras of complemented subsets of type (I) and (II), respectively, and swap rings as an abstract version of the structure of Boolean-valued partial functions on a set. Our examples of swap algebras and swap rings together with the included here results indicate that their theory is a certain generalisation of the theory of Boolean algebras and Boolean rings, a fact which we find interesting both from a constructive and a classical point of view.","PeriodicalId":515920,"journal":{"name":"Computability","volume":"109 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139963789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}