# Séminaires : Séminaire Général de Logique

 Equipe(s) : lm, Responsables : O. Finkel, T. Ibarlucía, A. Khélif, S. Rideau, C. Sureson Email des responsables : Salle : salle 2015 Adresse : Sophie Germain Description

 Orateur(s) Benoit Monin - LACL, Université Paris-Est Créteil , Titre A small history of K-triviality Date 28/11/2016 Horaire 15:10 à 16:10 Résume The Kolmogorov complexity of a string is, informally, the length of the smallest program that produces this string. We write C(s) = n to mean that the smallest program producing the string s is of length n. An infinite binary sequence X is said to be C-trivial if the Kolmogorov complexity of its prefixes is minimal, that is, if there is a constant d such that for any n, we have C(X rest n) < C(n) + d (Here X rest n denotes the n first bits of X). It is clear that any computable (infinite binary) sequence is C-trivial. Chaitin proved that the converse holds: A sequence X is computable iff it is C-trivial (1). Chaitin also successfully used Kolmogorov complexity to provide a formal definition of the intuitive idea we can have of a random sequence. To do so, he needed a variation of the standard Kolmogorov complexity, called "prefix Kolmogorov complexity" and denoted by K. Using this prefix Kolmorogov complexity K, he defined a sequence Z to be random if for any n we have K(Z rest n) > n - d for some constant d. The intuition is that the prefix Kolmogorov complexity should be maximal for prefixes of random sequences. This definition of randomness is still today the most studied, for many reasons that we shall not detail during the talk. Chaitin conjectured (1) to also be true with prefix Kolmorogov complexity K, that is, X is computable iff X is K-trivial (that is, there is d such that for every n we have K(X rest n) < K(n) + d). Solovay later refuted the conjecture by constructing a non-computable K-trivial sequence A. The notion of K-triviality was born, and had yetto reveal many surprises through its numerous different characterizations, and its connections with algorithmic randomness. After introducing the main concepts with more details, we will try during this talk to give some explanations and intuitions on the work that has been done by various people on K-triviality these last 15 years. Salle salle 2015 Adresse Sophie Germain