Computational complexity of smooth differential equations

  • Authors:
  • Akitoshi Kawamura;Hiroyuki Ota;Carsten Rösnick;Martin Ziegler

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan;University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan;Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany;Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

  • Venue:
  • MFCS'12 Proceedings of the 37th international conference on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The computational complexity of the solution h to the ordinary differential equation h(0)=0, h′(t)=g(t, h(t)) under various assumptions on the function g has been investigated in hope of understanding the intrinsic hardness of solving the equation numerically. Kawamura showed in 2010 that the solution h can be PSPACE-hard even if g is assumed to be Lipschitz continuous and polynomial-time computable. We place further requirements on the smoothness of g and obtain the following results: the solution h can still be PSPACE-hard if g is assumed to be of class C 1; for each k≥2, the solution h can be hard for the counting hierarchy if g is of class C k.