Questions about which problems are computable, or in general any question in recursion theory. Questions about the difficulty of solving particular problems should be tagged complexity.

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Prove domain of partial computable function exists

Prove that there is an n such that $W_n$ = {$2n, . . . , 2n + n^2$} Now I don't know where to start with this question, how can I go about answering it? Would I construct a computable function that ...
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non-recursive function

Give a direct proof that the set $\{x|\Phi_x(1) \downarrow\}$ (which is a set of program numbers that halt on input $1$) is not recursive. I've got an idea that indirect proof must work. Assuming ...
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What properties of busy beaver numbers are computable?

The busy beaver function $\text{BB}(n)$ describes the maximum number of steps that an $n$-state Turing machine can execute before it halts (assuming it halts at all). It is not a computable function ...
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What's the error in this argument that Fin$\le_m$Inf

There must be an error in the following argument since Fin is not many-one reducible to Inf, I can't seem to find it. Here it is informally (I hope it's straightforward and not confusing): Take any ...
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Post Correspondence Problem

The alphabet consists of just two characters, $0$ and $1$. How do I go about proving that it's undecidable? I was thinking of reducing the general case to binary form meaning if the alphabet has ...
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Computability function - how to express it in set theory/arithmetic hierarchy

Let's say that $f$ is computable function such that for particular inputs $x$ and $y$, $f(x) = 0$ and $f(y) = 0$. If we want to express this in logical form (arithmetic hierarchy formula), what would ...
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Identifying a pattern in an array

Is there a way to identifying a pattern and/or recursive function for an array? If yes, how can I do this. Could anyone please help me with some information and/or resource for this? Any help is ...
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A question on non-standard ordinals in $\alpha-$recursion

Let $M$ be an admissible set, namely, $M\models KP$ where KP stands for axioms of Kripke–Platek set theory. Denote $\beta=M\cap ORD$ where $ORD$ is the class of ordinals. I wanted to prove ...
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A topological example from Church's undecidability paper

A. Church, in his classical paper An unsolvable problem in elementary number theory in American Journal of Mathematics Vol. 58 No. 2. (1936), pp. 345-363, (available here), wrote: There is a class ...
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algorithm for solving diagonal quadratic equations over real or complex numbers

I found the following statement in the paper http://www.math.uni-bonn.de/~saxena/papers/cubic-forms.pdf (page 22, in the middle): For $\mathbb F\in\{\mathbb R, \mathbb C\}$ and $b, a_i\in\mathbb ...
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How to show Simp. and Creat. are $\Sigma^0_2$-Hard

Let Simp={$e:W_e$ is simple} and Creat={$e:W_e$ is creative} I'm having troubles showing these sets are $\Sigma^0_2$-Hard, ie that any $\Sigma^0_2$ set can be many-one reduced to them. I've already ...
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How to derive Church-Kleene ordinal

Crossing-out: (How does one prove the existence of Church-Kleene ordinal? Also, why is it labeled as $\omega_1^{CK}$? And why is it first ordinal not hyperarithmetical, and is the first admissible ...
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Is the measure induced by the Mandelbrot set computable on rational rectangles?

Is there a computable function that, given a positive rational number $\epsilon$ and a rectangle with rational corners $A$ returns a number $f(A,\epsilon)$ such that $|\mu(A \cap ...
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Deciding whether a formula is provable with a fixed number of universal generalizations

Let $y$ be Godel number of some formula which is derivable in some first-order logic. $F(y,n)$ is true if and only if the number of usage $Gen$(universal generalization) inference rule in any ...
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Unsolvability Degree in Turing's Proof 1

I have read that there is some debate over the exact origin of the Halting argument, which begins with Kleene and Davis in the 1950s [Copeland 2004]. Motivated by this I want to clarify the Degree of ...
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constructive ordinal and $\Delta^1_1$ predicate

Everything I know on this subject comes from Sacks book : "Higher recursion theory" Let $\mathcal{O^Y}$ be the set of codes for ordinals constructive in $Y$. We should have the result that $A ...
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Further question on “uncountable” Turing Machine

Having read An "uncountable" Turing Machine? I have further questions that I don't believe it addressed. (I'm a programmer, not a mathematician so I apologize if this is stupid or the ...
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Halting problem some properties

I am referring a little bit to my previous question on http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/392843/existence-universal-goto-programm-turing-machine#= Let $f(n)$ be the output of the universal ...
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Computational Complexity of the class of $\Delta_0$ functions (over $V_\omega$)

I would like to know where the class of functions whose graph is $\Delta_0$ (over $V_\omega$) fits in the computational complexity hierarchy. Also is there a nice notion of $\Delta_0$-reducibility ...
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Is discrete ultralogarithm harder than discrete logarithm?

Is computing $g^{xy} \bmod{s}$ from $g^{x} \bmod{s}$ and $g^{y} \bmod{s}$ easier harder or the same level of difficulty as computing $g\uparrow\uparrow(xy) \bmod s$ from from $g\uparrow\uparrow x$ ...
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Kolmogorov complexity and type of string

My question about well-known theorems: Theorem: Kolmogorov complexity is not a computable function. And, related, Chaitin's incompleteness theorem. ...
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Is it really true that $K(x|y) = K(x,y) - K(y)$?

Denote by $y^*$ the shortest program computing the string $y$. In the main textbook and various papers of Li & Vitanyi, I have seen the following statements. The first is well established: the ...
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Recurrence relation for the digits of the integer square root in binary

I was investigating a question on the Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange site, available here: ...
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What would an “algebraic axiomatization of the partial recursive functions” be?

Hartley Rogers in his "Theory of recursive functions and effective computability" (page 55 in the first edition) writes "What resemblance types are also isomorphism types? A final answer to this ...
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Computability of “isomorphism existence” between special cubic number fields

Let $a$ be a rational number such that the polynomial $P_a=X^3-X-a$ is irreducible, let $\alpha_{a}$ denote a root of $P_a$ and let ${\mathbb K}_a={\mathbb Q}(\alpha_{a})$. Similarly, let $b$ be a ...
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Primitive Recursion — Definition by Cases

I would like to know if it is allowed to define bounded maximization by primitive recursion and definition by cases in the following way: \begin{align*} [\mathrm{max}\,R](x, 0) &= 0,\\ ...
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Can all programs reducible to ones with only arithmetic operations on inputs be simulated with polynomial overhead by arithmetic machine?

In Can all programs be modeled as operations of elementary arithmetic operations on inputs? and computabiltiy theory, I asked: we treat all inputs and intermediate results and final outputs as ...
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binary string delta zero case

How to show that the binary string representing z is equal to the concatenation of the binary strings representing x and y (in that order), is a delta-zero condition? For delta-zero, there must be ...
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$\mid$ in simply typed lambda calculus

$e = x \mid \lambda x\!:\!\tau.e \mid e \, e \mid c$ So, what is $\mid$ in this example of simply typed lambda calculus? The syntax of the simply typed lambda calculus is essentially that ...
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On Cardinalities of $\mathcal{RE}$ and $\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{N})$

We denote $\mathcal{RE}$ as the universe set of recursively enumerable sets. A set is recursively enumerable iff its semi-charactersitic function is computable (one can write its semi-verifier). The ...
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Master Theorem $T(n)=4T(n/8)+n^(3/8)$

My try was : $$f(n)= n^3/5=n^{0.6} g(n) = n^{\log_8}(4) =n^{0.667}$$ so $f(n)<g(n)$ So $f(n) = \Omega(n^{\log_8}(n) + \epsilon)$ but with regularity condition $4f(n/8) \le cn^{3/5}$ ,for $c$ ...
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Why must language $L$ be decideable?

I am trying to teach myself computability theory with a textbook. According to my book, a function $f$ over an alphabet $A=\{a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, ...
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Double Recursion Theory

What is a doubly recursive or non-primitive recursive function? What are some well known doubly recursive formulations? Can someone explain with some illustrations?
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Relationship between $\Sigma_{1}$ and $\Pi_{1}$ functions (Logic)

I am working on the following homework problem for a logic class on Godel's incompleteness theorems and the following question is asked. Is the converse of Theorem $13.1$ true? Explain. Theorem ...
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Is there a standard maximality operator?

Is there a standard symbol for the maximization operator, much like μ for minimization?