Geodesic
On the concept of underdetermined alphabets of equal strength
Prikladnaâ diskretnaâ matematika, no. 3 (2014), pp. 40-57

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For underdetermined alphabets, the following two concepts are defined: a) one alphabet is stronger than another, and b) two alphabets have equal strength. To define concepts (a) and (b), several approaches are used. The functional approach is based on expressibility of one alphabet via another; three other approaches – combinatorial, probabilistic, and algorithmic – are terminologically connected with the Kolmogorov's approaches to the notion of the amount of information. It is proved that all these approaches to the comparison of alphabets are equivalent. In case (b), a solution of the optimal compression problem for one of the alphabets, in fact, solves the same problem for the other. It is shown that the concepts (a) and (b) allow polynomial time verification.
Keywords: underdetermined alphabet, alphabets of equal strength, entropy of underdetermined data, Kolmogorov complexity. 
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L. A. Sholomov. On the concept of underdetermined alphabets of equal strength. Prikladnaâ diskretnaâ matematika, no. 3 (2014), pp. 40-57. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/PDM_2014_3_a3/