On some direct encodings of nondeterministic Turing machines operating in polynomial time into p-complete problems

  • Authors:
  • Zvi Galil

  • Affiliations:
  • Cornell University

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGACT News
  • Year:
  • 1974

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Abstract

Cook [1] and Karp [2] introduced the notion of complete problems. Meyer and Stockmeyer [3] showed that some problems require exponential time. All these problems have a common property which in the latter case implies that they cannot be solved in polynomial time.