Descriptive characterizations of computational complexity (Q1123616)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4110109
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Descriptive characterizations of computational complexity
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4110109

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    Descriptive characterizations of computational complexity (English)
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    1989
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    Several complexity classes, such as Nlog-Space, P-Time, P-Space, and Exp- Time are characterized in terms of formulas of the form (\(\forall\) relations) (\(\exists\) objects) \(\phi\) with \(\phi\) quantifier-free. Different syntactic variants of such formulas characterize different complexity classes. In particular, such descriptive characterizations in terms of higher order logical formulas are considered.
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    descriptive complexity
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    logical characterization
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    of complexity classes
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