DocumentCode :
3092529
Title :
Von Neumann´s Biased Coin Revisited
Author :
Bienvenu, L. ; Monin, B.
Author_Institution :
LIAFA, Univ. de Paris 7, Paris, France
fYear :
2012
fDate :
25-28 June 2012
Firstpage :
145
Lastpage :
154
Abstract :
Suppose you want to generate a random sequence of zeros and ones and all you have at your disposal is a coin which you suspect to be biased (but do not know the bias). Can "perfect" randomness be produced with this coin? The answer is positive, thanks to a little trick discovered by von Neumann. In this paper, we investigate a generalization of this question: if we have access to a source of bits produced according to some probability measure in some class of measures, and suppose we know the class but not the measure (in the above example, the class would be the class of all Bernoulli measures), can perfect randomness be produced? We will look at this question from the viewpoint of effective mathematics and in particular the theory of effective randomness.
Keywords :
probability; random processes; random sequences; Bernoulli measures; Von Neumann biased coin; effective randomness; perfect randomness; probability measure; random sequence generation; Atomic measurements; Extraterrestrial measurements; Frequency measurement; Random sequences; Topology; Algorithmic Randomness; Computability; Effective mathematics; Markov measure; Measure theory; Randomness extraction;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Logic in Computer Science (LICS), 2012 27th Annual IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Dubrovnik
ISSN :
1043-6871
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2263-8
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/LICS.2012.26
Filename :
6280433
Link To Document :
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