Complexity of majorants

04/06/2020
by   Alexander Shen, et al.
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The minimal Kolmogorov complexity of a total computable function that exceeds everywhere all total computable functions of complexity at most n, is 2^n+O(1). If we replace "everywhere" by "for all sufficiently large inputs", the answer is n+O(1).

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