Continuous and monotone machines

Michal Konečný, Florian Steinberg, Holger Thies

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    Abstract

    We investigate a variant of the fuel-based approach to modeling diverging computation in type theories and use it to abstractly capture the essence of oracle Turing machines. The resulting objects we call continuous machines. We prove that it is possible to translate back and forth between such machines and names in the standard function encoding used in computable analysis. Put differently, among the operators on Baire space, exactly the partial continuous ones are implementable by continuous machines and the data that such a machine provides is a description of the operator as a sequentially realizable functional. Continuous machines are naturally formulated in type theories and we have formalized our findings in Coq as part of Incone, a Coq library for computable analysis. The correctness proofs use a classical meta-theory with countable choice. Along the way we formally prove some known results such as the existence of a self-modulating modulus of continuity for partial continuous operators on Baire space. To illustrate their versatility we use continuous machines to specify some algorithms that operate on objects that cannot be fully described by finite means, such as real numbers and functions. We present particularly simple algorithms for finding the multiplicative inverse of a real number and for composition of partial continuous operators on Baire space. Some of the simplicity is achieved by utilizing the fact that continuous machines are compatible with multivalued semantics.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2020
    EditorsJavier Esparza, Daniel Kral�, Daniel Kral�
    ISBN (Electronic)9783959771597
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 18 Aug 2020
    Event45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2020 - Prague, Czech Republic
    Duration: 25 Aug 202026 Aug 2020

    Publication series

    NameLeibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs
    Volume170
    ISSN (Print)1868-8969

    Conference

    Conference45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2020
    Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
    CityPrague
    Period25/08/2026/08/20

    Bibliographical note

    © Michal Konečný, Florian Steinberg, and Holger Thies;
    licensed under Creative Commons License CC-BY

    Funding: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 731143.

    Keywords

    • Computable Analysis
    • Coq
    • Exact real computation
    • Formal proofs
    • Proof assistant

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