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Kallampally and Tewari showed in 2016 that there can be a trade-off between determinism and time in space-bounded computations. This they did by describing an unambiguous non-deterministic algorithm to solve Directed Graph Reachability that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Ronak Bhadra , Raghunath Tewari

Due to Savitch's theorem we know $NL\subseteq DSPACE(\log^2(n))$. To show this upper bound, Savitch constructed an algorithm with $O(\log^2(n))$ space on the working tape. We will show that Savitch's algorithm also described a lower bound…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Reiner Czerwinski

We prove the first polynomial separation between randomized and deterministic time-space tradeoffs of multi-output functions. In particular, we present a total function that on the input of $n$ elements in $[n]$, outputs $O(n)$ elements,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Huacheng Yu , Wei Zhan

We develop catalytic algorithms for fundamental problems in algorithm design that run in polynomial time, use only $\mathcal{O}(\log(n))$ workspace, and use sublinear catalytic space matching the best-known space bounds of non-catalytic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Petr Chmel , Aditi Dudeja , Michal Koucký , Ian Mertz , Ninad Rajgopal

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

Suppose a language $L$ can be decided by a bounded-error randomized algorithm that runs in space $S$ and time $n \cdot \text{poly}(S)$. We give a randomized algorithm for $L$ that still runs in space $O(S)$ and time $n \cdot \text{poly}(S)$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-05-17 William M. Hoza

Any class of languages $\mathbf{L}$ accepted in time $\mathbf{T}$ has a counterpart $\mathbf{NL}$ accepted in nondeterministic time $\mathbf{NT}$. It follows from the definition of nondeterministic languages that $\mathbf{L} \subseteq…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Martin Kolář

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 discrete logarithm problem in a finite group is the basis for many protocols in cryptography. The best general algorithms which solve this problem have time complexity of $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{N}\log N)$, and a space complexity of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Simran Tinani , Joachim Rosenthal

We prove in this paper that there is a language $L_s$ accepted by some nondeterministic Turing machine that runs within time $O(n^k)$ for any positive integer $k\in\mathbb{N}_1$ but not by any ${\rm co}\mathcal{NP}$ machines. Then we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tianrong Lin

We study the problem of multiway number partition optimization, which has a myriad of applications in the decision, learning and optimization literature. Even though the original multiway partitioning problem is NP-hard and requires…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu

We give a deterministic $\tilde{O}(\log n)$-space algorithm for approximately solving linear systems given by Laplacians of undirected graphs, and consequently also approximating hitting times, commute times, and escape probabilities for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Jack Murtagh , Omer Reingold , Aaron Sidford , Salil Vadhan

An important theorem in classical complexity theory is that LOGLOGSPACE=REG, i.e. that languages decidable with double-logarithmic space bound are regular. We consider a transfinite analogue of this theorem. To this end, we introduce…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Merlin Carl

We show that all languages accepted in time f(n) >= n^2 can be accepted in space O(f(n)^{1/2})_and_ in time O(f(n)). The proof is carried out by simulation, based on the idea of guessing the sequences of internal states of the simulated TM…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-01-27 Nicola Caporaso

We present new results on the landscape of problems that can be solved by quantum Turing machines (QTM's) employing severely limited amounts of memory. In this context, we demonstrate two infinite time hierarchies of complexity classes…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-07 A. C. Cem Say

Proving lower bounds remains the most difficult of tasks in computational complexity theory. In this paper, we show that whereas most natural NP-complete problems belong to NLIN (linear time on nondeterministic RAMs), some of them,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Philippe Chapdelaine , Etienne Grandjean

There is an important and interesting open question in computational complexity on the relation between the complexity classes $\mathcal{NP}$ and $\mathcal{PSPACE}$. It is a widespread belief that $\mathcal{NP}\ne\mathcal{PSPACE}$. In this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Tianrong Lin

Undirected $st$-connectivity is important both for its applications in network problems, and for its theoretical connections with logspace complexity. Classically, a long line of work led to a time-space tradeoff of $T=\tilde{O}(n^2/S)$ for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Simon Apers , Stacey Jeffery , Galina Pass , Michael Walter

The authors recently gave an $n^{O(\log\log n)}$ time membership query algorithm for properly learning decision trees under the uniform distribution (Blanc et al., 2021). The previous fastest algorithm for this problem ran in $n^{O(\log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Guy Blanc , Jane Lange , Mingda Qiao , Li-Yang Tan

Given $m$ documents of total length $n$, we consider the problem of finding a longest string common to at least $d \geq 2$ of the documents. This problem is known as the \emph{longest common substring (LCS) problem} and has a classic $O(n)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Tomasz Kociumaka , Tatiana Starikovskaya , Hjalte Wedel Vildhøj
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