Miha Habič: Hiding Information in Generic Sequences

Please join us for November's Mathinar!

This month we have our own Miha Habič, who will be presenting his recent work on set-theoretic block chain.

Title: Hiding information in generic sequences
Speaker: Miha Habič (Simon's Rock)

Abstract: In set theory --- a branch of mathematics studying infinity --- we are interested in binary sequences (sequences of 0's and 1's) that are generic in various ways. Being generic should mean that there is nothing distinguished about the sequence, so it shouldn't carry any special information. Nevertheless, we will see a way in which we can split whatever hidden information we like between two or more generic sequences so that each of them separately knows nothing, and yet together they can recover the secret. This has implications for the multiverse view of set theory and the philosophy of mathematics.

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