We apply recent results on extracting randomness from independent sources to "extract " Kolmogorov complexity. For any ff; ffl? 0, given a string x with K(x) ? ffjxj, we show how to use a constant number of advice bits to efficiently compute another string y, jyj = \Omega (jxj), with K(y) ? (1 \Gamma ffl)jyj. This result holds for both classical and space-bounded Kolmogorov complexity. We use the extraction procedure for space-bounded complexity to establish zero-one laws for polynomial-space strong dimension. Our results include: (i) If Dimpspace(E) ? 0, then Dimpspace(E=O(1)) = 1. (ii) Dim(E=O(1) j ESPACE) is either 0 or 1. (iii) Dim(E=poly j ESPACE) is either 0 or 1. In other words,

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An infinite binary sequence has randomness rate σ if, for almost every n, the Kolmogorov complexity of its prefix of length n is at least σn. It is known that for every rational σ ∈ (0, 1), on one hand, there exists sequences with randomness rate σ that can not be effectively transformed into a sequence with randomness rate higher than σ and, on the other hand, any two independent sequences with randomness rate σ can be transformed into a sequence with randomness rate higher than σ. We show that the latter result holds even if the two input sequences have linear dependency (which, informally speaking, means that all prefixes of length n of the two sequences have in common a constant fraction of their information). The similar problem is studied for finite strings. It is shown that from any two strings with sufficiently large Kolmogorov complexity and sufficiently small dependence, one can effectively construct a string that is random even conditioned by any one of the input strings.

Abstract. A relatively longstanding question in algorithmic randomness is Jan Reimann’s question whether there is a Turing cone of broken dimension. That is, is there a real A such that {B: B ≤T A} contains no 1-random real, yet contains elements of nonzero effective Hausdorff Dimension? We show that the answer is affirmative if Hausdorff dimension is replaced by its inner analogue packing dimension. We construct a minimal degree of effective packing dimension 1. This leads us to examine the Turing degrees of reals with positive effective packing dimension. Unlike effective Hausdorff dimension, this is a notion of complexity which is shared by both random and sufficiently generic reals. We provide a characterization of the c.e. array noncomputable degrees in terms of effective packing dimension. 1.

Two objects are independent if they do not affect each other. Independence is wellunderstood in classical information theory, but less in algorithmic information theory. Working in the framework of algorithmic information theory, the paper proposes two types of independence for arbitrary infinite binary sequences and studies their properties. Our two proposed notions of independence have some of the intuitive properties that one naturally expects. For example, for every sequence x, the set of sequences that are independent (in the weaker of the two senses) with x has measure one. For both notions of independence we investigate to what extent pairs of independent sequences, can be effectively constructed via Turing reductions (from one or more input sequences). In this respect, we prove several impossibility results. For example, it is shown that there is no effective way of producing from an arbitrary sequence with positive constructive Hausdorff dimension two sequences that are independent (even in the weaker type of independence) and have super-logarithmic complexity. Finally, a few conjectures and open questions are discussed.

Two objects are independent if they do not affect each other. Independence is wellunderstood in classical information theory, but less in algorithmic information theory. Working in the framework of algorithmic information theory, the paper proposes two types of independence for arbitrary infinite binary sequences and studies their properties. Our two proposed notions of independence have some of the intuitive properties that one naturally expects. For example, for every sequence x, the set of sequences that are independent (in the weaker of the two senses) with x has measure one. For both notions of independence we investigate to what extent pairs of independent sequences, can be effectively constructed via Turing reductions (from one or more input sequences). In this respect, we prove several impossibility results. For example, it is shown that there is no effective way of producing from an arbitrary sequence with positive constructive Hausdorff dimension two sequences that are independent (even in the weaker type of independence) and have super-logarithmic complexity. Finally, a few conjectures and open questions are discussed. 1