English

On formally undecidable propositions in nondeterministic languages

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2021-11-30 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

Any class of languages L\mathbf{L} accepted in time T\mathbf{T} has a counterpart NL\mathbf{NL} accepted in nondeterministic time NT\mathbf{NT}. It follows from the definition of nondeterministic languages that LNL\mathbf{L} \subseteq \mathbf{NL}. This work shows that every sufficiently powerful language in L\mathbf{L} contains a string corresponding to G\"{o}del's undecidable proposition, but this string is not contained in its nondeterministic counterpart. This inconsistency in the definition of nondeterministic languages shows that certain questions regarding nondeterministic time complexity equivalences are irrevocably ill-posed.

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@article{arxiv.2111.14807,
  title  = {On formally undecidable propositions in nondeterministic languages},
  author = {Martin Kolář},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.14807},
  year   = {2021}
}

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4 pages

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