Computational complexity theory, edited by Juris Hartmanis, Proceedings of symposia in applied mathematics, vol. 38, American Mathematical Society, Providence1989, ix + 128 pp.

1991 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 335-336
Author(s):  
Uwe Schöning
4OR ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard J. Woeginger

AbstractWe survey optimization problems that allow natural simple formulations with one existential and one universal quantifier. We summarize the theoretical background from computational complexity theory, and we present a multitude of illustrating examples. We discuss the connections to robust optimization and to bilevel optimization, and we explain the reasons why the operational research community should be interested in the theoretical aspects of this area.


1996 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
E. Allender ◽  
J. Feigenbaum ◽  
J. Goldsmith ◽  
T. Pitassi ◽  
S. Rudich

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-439
Author(s):  
Walter Dean

Abstract Computational complexity theory is a subfield of computer science originating in computability theory and the study of algorithms for solving practical mathematical problems. Amongst its aims is classifying problems by their degree of difficulty — i.e., how hard they are to solve computationally. This paper highlights the significance of complexity theory relative to questions traditionally asked by philosophers of mathematics while also attempting to isolate some new ones — e.g., about the notion of feasibility in mathematics, the $\mathbf{P} \neq \mathbf{NP}$ problem and why it has proven hard to resolve, and the role of non-classical modes of computation and proof.


Algorithms ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Arne Meier

In this paper, we study the relationship of parameterized enumeration complexity classes defined by Creignou et al. (MFCS 2013). Specifically, we introduce two hierarchies (IncFPTa and CapIncFPTa) of enumeration complexity classes for incremental fpt-time in terms of exponent slices and show how they interleave. Furthermore, we define several parameterized function classes and, in particular, introduce the parameterized counterpart of the class of nondeterministic multivalued functions with values that are polynomially verifiable and guaranteed to exist, TFNP, known from Megiddo and Papadimitriou (TCS 1991). We show that this class TF(para-NP), the restriction of the function variant of NP to total functions, collapsing to F(FPT), the function variant of FPT, is equivalent to the result that OutputFPT coincides with IncFPT. In addition, these collapses are shown to be equivalent to TFNP = FP, and also equivalent to P equals NP intersected with coNP. Finally, we show that these two collapses are equivalent to the collapse of IncP and OutputP in the classical setting. These results are the first direct connections of collapses in parameterized enumeration complexity to collapses in classical enumeration complexity, parameterized function complexity, classical function complexity, and computational complexity theory.


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