Fundamental physics and computation: The computer-theoretic framework

S Miguel-Tomé, ÁL Sánchez-Lázaro, L Alonso-Romero - Universe, 2022 - mdpi.com
The central goal of this manuscript is to survey the relationships between fundamental
physics and computer science. We begin by providing a short historical review of how …

Three forms of physical measurement and their computability

E Beggs, JF Costa, JV Tucker - The Review of Symbolic Logic, 2014 - cambridge.org
We have begun a theory of measurement in which an experimenter and his or her
experimental procedure are modeled by algorithms that interact with physical equipment …

Axiomatizing physical experiments as oracles to algorithms

EJ Beggs, JF Costa, JV Tucker - … Transactions of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We developed earlier a theory of combining algorithms with physical systems, on the basis
of using physical experiments as oracles to algorithms. Although our concepts and methods …

An analogue-digital Church-Turing thesis

E Beggs, JF Costa, D Poças… - International Journal of …, 2014 - World Scientific
We argue that dynamical systems involving discrete and continuous data can be modelled
by Turing machines with oracles that are physical processes. Using the theory introduced in …

An analogue-digital model of computation: Turing machines with physical oracles

T Ambaram, E Beggs, J Félix Costa, D Poças… - … Computing: Volume 1 …, 2017 - Springer
We introduce an abstract analogue-digital model of computation that couples Turing
machines to oracles that are physical processes. Since any oracle has the potential to boost …

The word problem and combinatorial methods for groups and semigroups

CF Nyberg Brodda - 2021 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
The subject matter of this thesis is combinatorial semigroup theory. It includes material, in no
particular order, from combinatorial and geometric group theory, formal language theory …

Oracles that measure thresholds: the Turing machine and the broken balance

E Beggs, JF Costa, D Poças… - Journal of Logic and …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
What can algorithms compute with the help of information provided by an oracle that is a
physical system? We have developed a theory that combines Turing machines with …

A Hierarchy for Based on Counting Calls to an Oracle

E Beggs, P Cortez, JF Costa, JV Tucker - … : A Festschrift for Selim G. Akl, 2017 - Springer
Algorithms whose computations involve making physical measurements can be modelled by
Turing machines with oracles that are physical systems and oracle queries that obtain data …

Classifying the computational power of stochastic physical oracles

E Beggs, P Cortez, JF Costa, JV Tucker - 2018 - repositorio.ulisboa.pt
Consider a computability and complexity theory in which the classical set-theoretic oracle to
a Turing machine is replaced by a physical process, and oracle queries return …

Computations with oracles that measure vanishing quantities

E Beggs, JF Costa, D Poças, JV Tucker - Mathematical Structures in …, 2017 - cambridge.org
We consider computation with real numbers that arise through a process of physical
measurement. We have developed a theory in which physical experiments that measure …