A combinatorial problem which is complete in polynomial space

  • Authors:
  • Shimon Even;R. Endre Tarjan

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • STOC '75 Proceedings of seventh annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 1975

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Abstract

We consider a generalization, which we call the Shannon switching game on vertices, of a familiar board game called HEX. We show that determining who wins such a game if each player plays perfectly is very hard; in fact, it is as hard as carrying out any polynomial-space-bounded computation. This result suggests that the theory of combinatorial games is difficult.