Refining logical characterizations of advice complexity classes

Numerical relations in logics are known to characterize, via the finite models of their sentences, polynomial advice nonuniform complexity classes. These are known to coincide with reduction classes of tally sets. Our contributions here are: 1/ a refinement of that characterization that individualiz...

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Autores: Atserias, Albert|||0000-0002-3732-1989, Balcázar Navarro, José Luis|||0000-0003-4248-4528
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:1997
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/83486
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/83486
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Nonuniform complexity classes
Computational complexity
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Sumario:Numerical relations in logics are known to characterize, via the finite models of their sentences, polynomial advice nonuniform complexity classes. These are known to coincide with reduction classes of tally sets. Our contributions here are: 1/ a refinement of that characterization that individualizes the reduction class of each tally set, and 2/ characterizing logarithmic advice classes via numerical constants, both in the (rather easy) case of C/log and in the more complex case of Full-C/log; this proof requires to extend to classes below P the technical characterizations known for the class Full-P/log.