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Computational complexity : a conceptual perspective /

Complexity theory is a central field of the theoretical foundations of computer science, concerned with the general study of the intrinsic complexity of computational tasks. This book offers a conceptual perspective on complexity theory intended to serve as an introduction for advanced undergraduate...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goldreich, Oded
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction and preliminaries
  • P, NP and NP-completeness
  • Variations on P and NP
  • More resources, more power
  • Space complexity
  • Randomness and counting
  • The bright side of hardness
  • Pseudorandom generators
  • Probabilistic proof systems
  • Relaxing the requirements
  • Appendix A: Glossary of complexity classes
  • Appendix B: On the quest for lower bounds
  • Appendix C: On the foundations of modern cryptography
  • Appendix D: Probabilistic preliminaries and advanced topics in randomization
  • Appendix E: Explicit constructions
  • Appendix F: Some omitted proofs
  • Appendix G: Some computational problems.