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An Atemporal Model of Physical Complexity

Logic in Computer Science 2018-07-31 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We present the finite first-order theory (FFOT) machine, which provides an atemporal description of computation. We then develop a concept of complexity for the FFOT machine, and prove that the class of problems decidable by a FFOT machine with polynomial resources is NP intersect co-NP.

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@article{arxiv.1807.11137,
  title  = {An Atemporal Model of Physical Complexity},
  author = {Richard Whyman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.11137},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

In Proceedings PC 2018, arXiv:1807.10563

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