On the complexity of functions for random access machines

  • Authors:
  • Nader H. Bshouty

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

Tight bounds are proved for Sort, Merge, Insert, Gcd of integers, Gcd of polynomials, and Rational functions over a finite inputs domain, in a random access machine with arithmetic operations, direct and indirect addressing, unlimited power for answering YES/NO questions, branching, and tables with bounded size. These bounds are also true even if additions, subtractions, multiplications, and divisions of elements by elements of the field are not counted.In a random access machine with finitely many constants and a bounded number of types of instructions, it is proved that the complexity of a function over a countable infinite domain is equal to the complexity of the function in a sufficiently large finite subdomain.