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In this paper we explore fundamental concepts in computational complexity theory and the boundaries of algorithmic decidability. We examine the relationship between complexity classes \textbf{P} and \textbf{NP}, where $L \in \textbf{P}$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Duaa Abdullah , Jasem Hamoud

In 1975, Ladner showed that under the hypothesis that P is not equal to NP, there exists a language which is neither in P, nor NP-complete. This result was latter generalized by Schoning and several authors to various polynomial-time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Philippe Chapdelaine

In recent years, quantitative complexity over semirings has been intensively investigated. In this context, Eiter and Kiesel (Semiring Reasoning Frameworks in AI and Their Computational Complexity, J. Artif. Intell. Res., 2023) introduced…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Guillermo Badia , Manfred Droste , Thomas Eiter , Rafael Kiesel , Carles Noguera , Erik Paul

This paper introduces a generic framework that provides sufficient conditions for guaranteeing polynomial-time decidability of fixed-negation fragments of first-order theories that adhere to certain fixed-parameter tractability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Christoph Haase , Alessio Mansutti , Amaury Pouly

In a previous paper, we have shown that any Boolean formula can be encoded as a linear programming problem in the framework of Bayesian probability theory. When applied to NP-complete algorithms, this leads to the fundamental conclusion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-21 Michel Feldmann

This article finds the answer to the question: for any problem from which a non-deterministic algorithm can be derived which verifies whether an answer is correct or not in polynomial time (complexity class NP), is it possible to create an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Daniel Cardona Delgado

The complexity class $NP$ can be logically characterized both through existential second order logic $SO\exists$, as proven by Fagin, and through simulating a Turing machine via the satisfiability problem of propositional logic SAT, as…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Tuomo Kauranne

We propose logical characterizations of problems solvable in deterministic polylogarithmic time (PolylogTime) and polylogarithmic space (PolylogSpace). We introduce a novel two-sorted logic that separates the elements of the input domain…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Flavio Ferrarotti , Senén González , José María Turull Torres , Jan Van den Bussche , Jonni Virtema

The extended L\"uroth's Theorem says that if the transcendence degree of $\KK(\mathsf{f}_1,\dots,\mathsf{f}_m)/\KK$ is 1 then there exists $f \in \KK(\underline{X})$ such that $\KK(\mathsf{f}_1,\dots,\mathsf{f}_m)$ is equal to $\KK(f)$. In…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2011-11-08 Guillaume Chèze

This paper demonstrates the relativity of Computability and Nondeterministic; the nondeterministic is just Turing's undecidable Decision rather than the Nondeterministic Polynomial time. Based on analysis about TM, UM, DTM, NTM, Turing…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Jian-Ming Zhou

In this paper, we make a preliminary interpretation of Cook's theorem presented in [1]. This interpretation reveals cognitive biases in the proof of Cook's theorem that arise from the attempt of constructing a formula in CNF to represent a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-01-09 JianMing Zhou , Yu Li

We introduce a restricted second-order logic $\mathrm{SO}^{\mathit{plog}}$ for finite structures where second-order quantification ranges over relations of size at most poly-logarithmic in the size of the structure. We demonstrate the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Flavio Ferrarotti , Senen Gonzáles , Klaus-Dieter Schewe , José María Turull-Torres

In this paper we develop techniques that eliminate the need of the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis (GRH) from various (almost all) known results about deterministic polynomial factoring over finite fields. Our main result shows that given a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-08 Gábor Ivanyos , Marek Karpinski , Lajos Rónyai , Nitin Saxena

We reveal a complexity chasm, separating the trinomial and tetranomial cases, for solving univariate sparse polynomial equations over certain local fields. First, for any fixed field $K\in\{\mathbb{Q}_2,\mathbb{Q}_3,\mathbb{Q}_5,\ldots\}$,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-08 J. Maurice Rojas , Yuyu Zhu

A decision problem is called parameterized if its input is a pair of strings. One of these strings is referred to as a parameter. The problem: given a propositional logic program P and a non-negative integer k, decide whether P has a stable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zbigniew Lonc , Miroslaw Truszczynski

The {\em diagonalization technique} was invented by Georg Cantor to show that there are more real numbers than algebraic numbers and is very crucial in {\em theoretical computer science}. In this work, we enumerate all of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Tianrong Lin

The problem of finding a nontrivial factor of a polynomial f(x) over a finite field F_q has many known efficient, but randomized, algorithms. The deterministic complexity of this problem is a famous open question even assuming the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Manuel Arora , Gábor Ivanyos , Marek Karpinski , Nitin Saxena

Continuing the study of complexity theory of Koepke's Ordinal Turing Machines (OTMs) that was started by Rin, L\"owe and the author, we prove the following results: (1) An analogue of Ladner's theorem for OTMs holds: That is, there are…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Merlin Carl

We investigate the correspondence between the time and space recognition complexity of languages. For this purpose, we will code the long-continued computations of deterministic two-tape Turing machines by the relatively short-length…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Ivan V. Latkin

Turing machines define polynomial time (PTime) on strings but cannot deal with structures like graphs directly, and there is no known, easily computable string encoding of isomorphism classes of structures. Is there a computation model…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Andreas Blass , Yuri Gurevich , Saharon Shelah
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