Algorithmic Information, Plane Kakeya Sets, and Conditional Dimension
Algorithmic Information, Plane Kakeya Sets, and Conditional Dimension
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算法信息、平面挂屋集和条件维度
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2015
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Neil Lutz
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J. H. Lutz;Neil Lutz
We formulate the conditional Kolmogorov complexity of x given y at precision r, where x and y are points in Euclidean spaces and r is a natural number. We demonstrate the utility of this notion in two ways; (1) We prove a point-to-set principle that enables one to use the (relativized, constructive) dimension of a single point in a set E in a Euclidean space to establish a lower bound on the (classical) Hausdorff dimension of E. We then use this principle, together with conditional Kolmogorov complexity in Euclidean spaces, to give a new proof of the known, two-dimensional case of the Kakeya conjecture. This theorem of geometric measure theory, proved by Davies in 1971, says that every plane set containing a unit line segment in every direction has Hausdorff dimension 2. (2)We use conditional Kolmogorov complexity in Euclidean spaces to develop the lower and upper conditional dimensions dim(x|y) and Dim(x|y) of x given y, where x and y are points in Euclidean spaces. Intuitively, these are the lower and upper asymptotic algorithmic information densities of x conditioned on the information in y. We prove that these conditional dimensions are robust and that they have the correct information-theoretic relationships with the well-studied dimensions dim(x) and Dim(x) and the mutual dimensions mdim(x : y) and Mdim(x : y).