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Probabilistic Algorithmic Randomness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Sam Buss  and
Mia Minnes
Sam Buss
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0112, USA, E-mail:[email protected], E-mail:[email protected]
Mia Minnes
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0112, USA, E-mail:[email protected], E-mail:[email protected]
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Abstract

We introduce martingales defined by probabilistic strategies, in which randomness is used to decide whether to bet. We show that different criteria for the success of computable probabilistic strategies can be used to characterize ML-randomness, computable randomness, and partial computable randomness. Our characterization of ML-randomness partially addresses a critique of Schnorr by formulating ML randomness in terms of a computable process rather than a computably enumerable function.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 78 , Issue 2 , June 2013 , pp. 579 - 601
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2013

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