VPSPACE and a transfer theorem over the complex field

  • Authors:
  • Pascal Koiran;Sylvain Perifel

  • Affiliations:
  • LIP*, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon;LIP*, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

  • Venue:
  • MFCS'07 Proceedings of the 32nd international conference on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We extend the transfer theorem of [15] to the complex field. That is, we investigate the links between the class VPSPACE of families of polynomials and the Blum-Shub-Smale model of computation over C. Roughly speaking, a family of polynomials is in VPSPACE if its coefficients can be computed in polynomial space. Our main result is that if (uniform, constant-free) VPSPACE families can be evaluated efficiently then the class PARC of decision problems that can be solved in parallel polynomial time over the complex field collapses to PC. As a result, one must first be able to show that there are VPSPACE families which are hard to evaluate in order to separate PC from NPC, or even from PARC.