Sequence spaces and asymmetric norms in the theory of computational complexity

  • Authors:
  • L. M. García-Raffi;S. Romaguera;E. A. Sánchez-Pérez

  • Affiliations:
  • Escuela de Caminos, Departamento de Matemática Aplicada Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 46071 Valencia, Spain;Escuela de Caminos, Departamento de Matemática Aplicada Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 46071 Valencia, Spain;Escuela de Caminos, Departamento de Matemática Aplicada Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 46071 Valencia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In 1995, Schellekens introduced the complexity (quasi-metric) space as a part of the development of a topological foundation for the complexity analysis of algorithms. Recently, Romaguera and Schellekens have obtained several quasi-metric properties of the complexity space which are interesting from a computational point of view, via the analysis of the so-called dual complexity space. Here, we extend the notion of the dual complexity space to the p-dual case, with p 1, in order to include some other kinds of exponential time algorithms in this study. We show that the dual p-complexity space is isometrically isomorphic to the positive cone of l"p endowed with the asymmetric norm |.|"+"p given on l"p by |x|"+"p = [@?"n"="0^~((x"n V0)^p)]^1^/^p, where x @? (x"n)"n"@e"@w. We also obtain some results on completeness and compactness of these spaces.