A Graphic Apology for Symmetry and Implicitness

ISBN-13: 9780198507291 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 520 str.

Alessandra Carbone; Stephen Semmes

Opis

This book brings into focus the contrast between explicit and implicit algorithmic descriptions of objects and presents a new geometric language for the study of combinatorial and logical problems in complexity theory. These themes are considered in a variety of settings, sometimes crossing traditional boundaries. Special emphasis is given to moderate complexity - exponential or polynomial - but objects with multi-exponential complexity also fit in. Among the items under consideration are graphs, formal proofs, languages, automata, groups, circuits, some connections with geometry of metric spaces, and complexity classes (P, NP, co-NP).

Recenzje

Interesting and this is certainly one of the first treatments of these problems.

O autorze

A. Carbone, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Paris XII, France S. Semmes, Professor of Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, USA