From Almost Optimal Algorithms to Logics for Complexity Classes via Listings and a Halting Problem

  • Authors:
  • Yijia Chen;Jörg Flum

  • Affiliations:
  • Shanghai Jiaotong University;Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Let C denote one of the complexity classes “polynomial time,” “logspace,” or “nondeterministic logspace.” We introduce a logic L(C)inv and show generalizations and variants of the equivalence (L(C)inv captures C if and only if there is an almost C-optimal algorithm in C for the set Taut of tautologies of propositional logic). These statements are also equivalent to the existence of a listing of subsets in C of Taut by corresponding Turing machines and equivalent to the fact that a certain parameterized halting problem is in the parameterized complexity class XCuni.