• theory, the time hierarchy theorems are important statements about time-bounded computation on Turing machines. Informally, these theorems say that given...
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  • analogous theorems for time are the time hierarchy theorems. The foundation for the hierarchy theorems lies in the intuition that with either more time or more...
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  • time and space complexity classes in the following way: P ⊆ NP ⊆ PSPACE ⊆ EXPTIME ⊆ NEXPTIME ⊆ EXPSPACE. Furthermore, by the time hierarchy theorem and...
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    conjecture that the polynomial time hierarchy of complexity classes is infinite. The compression theorem is an important theorem about the complexity of computable...
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  • the time hierarchy theorem. They are important because the time hierarchy theorem relies on Turing machines that must determine in O(f(n)) time whether...
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    classes can be defined similarly. Because of the time hierarchy theorem, these classes form a strict hierarchy; we know that P ⊊ E X P T I M E {\displaystyle...
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  • Open mapping theorem (functional analysis) Product topology Riemann integral Time hierarchy theorem Deterministic time hierarchy theorem Furstenberg's...
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  • proven that these problems cannot be verified in polynomial time, by the time hierarchy theorem. An important set of NEXPTIME-complete problems relates to...
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  • The time and space hierarchy theorems form the basis for most separation results of complexity classes. For instance, the time hierarchy theorem tells...
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  • and cannot compute languages beyond this complexity class. The time hierarchy theorem implies that E L E M E N T A R Y {\displaystyle {\mathsf {ELEMENTARY}}}...
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  • computational complexity theory, the polynomial hierarchy (sometimes called the polynomial-time hierarchy) is a hierarchy of complexity classes that generalize...
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  • NTIME (redirect from Nondeterministic time)
    The non-deterministic time hierarchy theorem says that nondeterministic machines can solve more problems in asymptotically more time. NTIME is also related...
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  • the Gap Theorem does not imply anything interesting for complexity classes such as P or NP, and it does not contradict the time hierarchy theorem or space...
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  • theorem is a result in computational complexity theory that was proven by Seinosuke Toda in his paper "PP is as Hard as the Polynomial-Time Hierarchy"...
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    The time and space hierarchy theorems form the basis for most separation results of complexity classes. For instance, the time hierarchy theorem establishes...
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  • more than polynomial time. In fact, by the time hierarchy theorem, they cannot be solved in significantly less than exponential time. Examples include finding...
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    The only known strict inclusions come from the time hierarchy theorem and the space hierarchy theorem, and respectively they are N P ⊊ N E X P T I M E...
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  • Polynomial-time Turing reduction Savitch's theorem Space hierarchy theorem Speed Prior Speedup theorem Subquadratic time Time hierarchy theorem See the list...
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  • science) Time hierarchy theorem (computational complexity theory) Toda's theorem (computational complexity theory) Universal approximation theorem (artificial...
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  • Cook's theorem List of complexity classes Polynomial hierarchy Exponential hierarchy NP-complete Time hierarchy theorem Space hierarchy theorem Natural...
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  • and lower-order terms. It ignores the size of the exponent. The time hierarchy theorem proves the existence of problems in P requiring arbitrarily large...
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  • problems nondeterministically in a smaller amount of time, violating the time hierarchy theorem. Therefore, the existence of algorithm A {\displaystyle...
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    2307/1994208, JSTOR 1994208, MR 0170805. Contains the time hierarchy theorem, one of the theorems that shaped the field of computational complexity theory...
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    theorem. Williams (2011) proves that ACC0 does not contain NEXPTIME. The proof uses many results in complexity theory, including the time hierarchy theorem...
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    ZPP = EXPTIME. A proof for ZPP = EXPTIME would imply that P ≠ ZPP, as P ≠ EXPTIME (see time hierarchy theorem). BPP RP Complexity Zoo: ZPP Class ZPP...
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  • theorem, named after Emil Post, describes the connection between the arithmetical hierarchy and the Turing degrees. The statement of Post's theorem uses...
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    In mathematical logic, the arithmetical hierarchy, arithmetic hierarchy or Kleene–Mostowski hierarchy (after mathematicians Stephen Cole Kleene and Andrzej...
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    according to the time required to solve them. They went on to prove a number of fundamental results such as the Time hierarchy theorem. In his own Turing...
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  • model of arithmetic Fast-growing hierarchy Paris–Harrington theorem Kanamori–McAloon theorem Kruskal's tree theorem Kirby & Paris 1982. Rathjen 2014,...
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  • version of Karp–Lipton theorem states that if every language in NP has polynomial size circuits then the polynomial time hierarchy collapses to SP 2. This...
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