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Abstract
We study randomness-preserving transformations of path-incompressible trees, namely trees of finite randomness deficiency. We characterize their branching density, and show: (a) sparse perfect path-incompressible trees can be effectively densified, almost surely; (b) there exists a path-incompressible tree with infinitely many paths which does not compute any perfect path-incompressible tree with computable oracle-use.
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