Dense completeness

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Krebs;Klaus-Jörn Lange

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Tübingen, Germany;University of Tübingen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • DLT'12 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Developments in Language Theory
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We introduce dense completeness, which gives tighter connection between formal language classes and complexity classes than the usual notion of completeness. A family of formal languages $\mathcal F$ is densely complete in a complexity class $\mathcal C$ iff ${\mathcal F}\subseteq{\mathcal C}$ and for each $C \in{\mathcal C}$ there is an $F \in{\mathcal F}$ such that F is many-one equivalent to C. For AC0-reductions we show the following results: the family CFL of context-free languages is densely complete in the complexity class SAC1. Moreover, we show that the indexed languages are densely complete in NP and the nondeterministic one-counter languages are densely complete in NL. On the other hand, we prove that the regular languages are not densely complete in NC1.