Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
424427 Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 2007 13 Pages PDF
Abstract

We investigate notions of algorithmic randomness in the space C(N2) of continuous functions on N2. A probability measure is given and a version of the Martin-Löf test for randomness is defined which allows us to define a class of (Martin-Löf) random continuous functions. We show that random continuous functions exist, but no computable function can be random. We show that a random function maps any computable real to a random real and that the image of a random continuous function is always a perfect set and hence uncountable. We show that for any y∈N2, there exists a random continuous function F with y in the image of F. Thus the image of a random continuous function need not be a random closed set.

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