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October 2001 The Borel–Cantelli Lemmas, Probability Laws and Kolmogorov Complexity
George Davie
Ann. Probab. 29(4): 1426-1434 (October 2001). DOI: 10.1214/aop/1015345756

Abstract

We formulate effective versions of the Borel–Cantelli lemmas using a coefficient from Kolmogorov complexity. We then use these effective versions to lift the effective content of the law of large numbers and the law of the iterated logarithm.

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George Davie. "The Borel–Cantelli Lemmas, Probability Laws and Kolmogorov Complexity." Ann. Probab. 29 (4) 1426 - 1434, October 2001. https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1015345756

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Published: October 2001
First available in Project Euclid: 5 March 2002

zbMATH: 1017.60002
MathSciNet: MR1880226
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/aop/1015345756

Subjects:
Primary: 60A05 , 68Q30

Keywords: compressibility coefficient , Effective Borel-Cantelli lemmas , Kolmogorov complexity , probability law

Rights: Copyright © 2001 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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