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Formal Theories for Logspace Counting

Logic in Computer Science 2010-01-13 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We introduce two-sorted theories in the style of Cook and Nguyen for the complexity classes ParityL and DET, whose complete problems include determinants over GF(2) and Z, respectively. The definable functions in these theories are the functions in the corresponding complexity classes; thus each theory formalizes reasoning using concepts from its corresponding complexity class.

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@article{arxiv.1001.1960,
  title  = {Formal Theories for Logspace Counting},
  author = {Lila Fontes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.1960},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

33 pages, uses newalg.sty (file included)

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