Logics for complexity classes

نویسنده

  • Vladimir Naidenko
چکیده

A new syntactic characterization of problems complete via Turing reductions is presented. General canonical forms are developed in order to define such problems. One of these forms allows us to define complete problems on ordered structures, and another form to define them on unordered non-Aristotelian structures. Using the canonical forms, logics are developed for complete problems in various complexity classes. Evidence is shown that there cannot be any complete problem on Aristotelian structures for several complexity classes. Our approach is extended beyond complete problems. Using a similar form, a logic is developed to capture the complexity class NP ∩ coNP which very likely contains no complete

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Logic Journal of the IGPL

دوره 22  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014