Series: Penn State Logic Seminar

 Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2006

 Time: 2:30 - 3:45 PM

 Place: 106 McAllister Building

 Speaker: Esteban Gomez-Riviere, Penn State, Mathematics

 Title: Introduction to $K$-Trivial Reals, part 1

 Abstract:

   In 1975 Chaitin and Solovay introduced $K$-triviality as a property
   of reals expressed in terms of prefix-free Kolmogorov complexity.
   In this talk we will introduce the concepts necessary for defining
   $K$-triviality and prove the Kraft-Chaitin theorem, an important
   tool for proving certain properties of $K$-trivial reals.