Infinite Time Turing Machines

dc.creatorHamkins, Joel David
dc.creatorLewis, Andy
dc.date1998-08-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:25:46Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:25:46Z
dc.descriptionWe extend in a natural way the operation of Turing machines to infinite ordinal time, and investigate the resulting supertask theory of computability and decidability on the reals. The resulting computability theory leads to a notion of computation on the reals and concepts of decidability and semi-decidability for sets of reals as well as individual reals. Every Pi^1_1 set, for example, is decidable by such machines, and the semi-decidable sets form a portion of the Delta^1_2 sets. Our oracle concept leads to a notion of relative computability for reals and sets of reals and a rich degree structure, stratified by two natural jump operators.
dc.description57 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the Journal of Symbolic Logic
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/9808093
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/9808093
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/77307
dc.subjectLogic
dc.subject03D30; 03D60
dc.titleInfinite Time Turing Machines
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