Completeness and Reduction in Algebraic Complexity Theory Hardback
by Peter Burgisser
Part of the Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics series
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One of the most important and successful theories in computational complex ity is that of NP-completeness.
This discrete theory is based on the Turing machine model and achieves a classification of discrete computational prob lems according to their algorithmic difficulty.
Turing machines formalize al gorithms which operate on finite strings of symbols over a finite alphabet.
By contrast, in algebraic models of computation, the basic computational step is an arithmetic operation (or comparison) of elements of a fixed field, for in stance of real numbers.
Hereby one assumes exact arithmetic. In 1989, Blum, Shub, and Smale [12] combined existing algebraic models of computation with the concept of uniformity and developed a theory of NP-completeness over the reals (BSS-model).
Their paper created a renewed interest in the field of algebraic complexity and initiated new research directions.
The ultimate goal of the BSS-model (and its future extensions) is to unite classical dis crete complexity theory with numerical analysis and thus to provide a deeper foundation of scientific computation (cf. [11, 101]). Already ten years before the BSS-paper, Valiant [107, 110] had proposed an analogue of the theory of NP-completeness in an entirely algebraic frame work, in connection with his famous hardness result for the permanent [108].
While the part of his theory based on the Turing approach (#P-completeness) is now standard and well-known among the theoretical computer science com munity, his algebraic completeness result for the permanents received much less attention.
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- Publisher:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
- Publication Date:21/06/2000
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:168 pages, XII, 168 p.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
- Publication Date:21/06/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9783540667520
