English

On tiered small jump operators

Computational Complexity 2015-07-01 v2 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

Predicative analysis of recursion schema is a method to characterize complexity classes like the class FPTIME of polynomial time computable functions. This analysis comes from the works of Bellantoni and Cook, and Leivant by data tiering. Here, we refine predicative analysis by using a ramified Ackermann's construction of a non-primitive recursive function. We obtain a hierarchy of functions which characterizes exactly functions, which are computed in O(n^k) time over register machine model of computation. For this, we introduce a strict ramification principle. Then, we show how to diagonalize in order to obtain an exponential function and to jump outside deterministic polynomial time. Lastly, we suggest a dependent typed lambda-calculus to represent this construction.

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@article{arxiv.0903.2410,
  title  = {On tiered small jump operators},
  author = {Jean-Yves Marion},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.2410},
  year   = {2015}
}
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