Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
422162 Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 2008 34 Pages PDF
Abstract

We define and compare several probabilistically weakened notions of computability for mappings from represented spaces (that are equipped with a measure or outer measure) into effective metric spaces. We thereby generalize definitions by Ko [Ko, K.-I., “Complexity Theory of Real Functions,” Birkhäuser, Boston, 1991] and Parker [Parker, M.W., Undecidability in Rn: Riddled basins, the KAM tori, and the stability of the solar system, Philosophy of Science 70 (2003), pp. 359–382; Parker, M.W., Three concepts of decidability for general subsets of uncountable spaces, Theoretical Computer Science 351 (2006), pp. 2–13], and furthermore introduce the new notion of computability in the mean. Some results employ a notion of computable measure that originates in definitions by Weihrauch [Weihrauch, K., Computability on the probability measures on the Borel sets of the unit interval., Theoretical Computer Science 219 (1999), pp. 421–437] and Schröder [Schröder, M., Admissible representations of probability measures, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 167 (2007), pp. 61–78]. In the spirit of the well-known Representation Theorem, we establish dependencies between the weakened computability notions and classical properties of mappings. We finally present some positive results on the computability of vector-valued integration on metric spaces, and discuss certain measurability issues arising in connection with our definitions.

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