Vasco Brattka - A Galois connection between Turing jumps and limits

lmcs:4287 - Logical Methods in Computer Science, August 31, 2018, Volume 14, Issue 3 - https://doi.org/10.23638/LMCS-14(3:13)2018
A Galois connection between Turing jumps and limitsArticle

Authors: Vasco Brattka ORCID

    Limit computable functions can be characterized by Turing jumps on the input side or limits on the output side. As a monad of this pair of adjoint operations we obtain a problem that characterizes the low functions and dually to this another problem that characterizes the functions that are computable relative to the halting problem. Correspondingly, these two classes are the largest classes of functions that can be pre or post composed to limit computable functions without leaving the class of limit computable functions. We transfer these observations to the lattice of represented spaces where it leads to a formal Galois connection. We also formulate a version of this result for computable metric spaces. Limit computability and computability relative to the halting problem are notions that coincide for points and sequences, but even restricted to continuous functions the former class is strictly larger than the latter. On computable metric spaces we can characterize the functions that are computable relative to the halting problem as those functions that are limit computable with a modulus of continuity that is computable relative to the halting problem. As a consequence of this result we obtain, for instance, that Lipschitz continuous functions that are limit computable are automatically computable relative to the halting problem. We also discuss 1-generic points as the canonical points of continuity of limit computable functions, and we prove that restricted to these points limit computable functions are computable relative to the halting problem. Finally, we demonstrate how these results can be applied in computable analysis.


    Volume: Volume 14, Issue 3
    Section: Computability and logic
    Published on: August 31, 2018
    Accepted on: August 24, 2018
    Submitted on: February 15, 2018
    Keywords: Mathematics - Logic,Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science

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