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2-manifold recognition is in logspace

Geometric Topology 2014-12-04 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We prove that the homeomorphism problem for 2-manifolds can be decided in logspace. The proof relies on Reingold's logspace solution to the undirected s,ts,t-connectivity problem in graphs.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1412.1188,
  title  = {2-manifold recognition is in logspace},
  author = {Benjamin A. Burton and Murray Elder and Arkadius Kalka and Stephan Tillmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.1188},
  year   = {2014}
}

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11 pages, 2 figures

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