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Undecidability through Fourier series

Buser, Peter
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Scarpellini, Bruno
2016
Annals Of Pure And Applied Logic

In computability theory a variety of combinatorial systems are encountered (word problems, production systems) that exhibit undecidability properties. Here we seek such structures in the realm of Analysis, more specifically in the area of Fourier Analysis. The starting point is that sufficiently strongly convergent Fourier series give rise to predicates in the sense of first order predicate calculus by associating to any s-ary Fourier series the predicate "the Fourier coefficient with index (n(1), ... , n(s)) is non-zero". We introduce production systems, viewed as counterparts of the combinatorial ones, that generate all recursively enumerable predicates in this way using as tools only elementary operations and functions from classical Analysis. The problem arises how simple such a system may be. It turns out that there is a connection between this question and an as yet unproved conjecture by R. Bilchi. This is discussed in the second half of the paper. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.apal.2016.03.001
Web of Science ID

WOS:000375821500001

Author(s)
Buser, Peter
Scarpellini, Bruno
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

Elsevier Science Bv

Published in
Annals Of Pure And Applied Logic
Volume

167

Issue

7

Start page

507

End page

524

Subjects

Recursively enumerable sets

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Fourier series

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Buchi's problem

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Jacobi theta functions

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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MATHGEOM  
Available on Infoscience
July 19, 2016
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