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2006.08523

Unpredictable Strings

Marat Akhmet, Astrit Tola

incompletemedium confidence
Category
math.DS
Journal tier
Note/Short/Other
Processed
Sep 28, 2025, 12:55 AM

Audit review

The paper’s Theorem 4.1 claims an uncountable set of unpredictable realizations but the given proof only cites the existence of one unpredictable point for the Bernoulli shift and argues via (claimed) orbit density; it does not actually establish uncountably many unpredictable sequences or provide a direct cardinality argument (see the statement/proof block for Theorem 4.1 and surrounding discussion) . By contrast, the model’s construction explicitly builds a continuum-sized family of sequences with disjoint enforced blocks guaranteeing arbitrarily long unpredictable strings, and then notes that the canonical product space uses all sequences as realizations. Definitions of “unpredictable string” and “unpredictable sequence” match those in the paper .

Referee report (LaTeX)

\textbf{Recommendation:} major revisions

\textbf{Journal Tier:} note/short/other

\textbf{Justification:}

The main theorem’s proof invokes Poincaré chaos and orbit density for the full shift but does not demonstrate that there are uncountably many unpredictable sequences, nor does it provide a construction or counting argument; thus the stated cardinality claim is not established. A short constructive proof would fix this. Clarifications on assumptions (e.g., alphabet size ≥ 2) and more rigorous proofs in Section 2 are also needed.