A hierarchy for nondeterministic time complexity

  • Authors:
  • Stephen A. Cook

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • STOC '72 Proceedings of the fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 1972

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to prove the following result: Theorem 1 For any real numbers r1, r2, 1 ≤ r1 2, there is a set A of strings which has nondeterministic time complexity nr2 but not nondeterministic time complexity nr1 The computing devices are non-deterministic multitape Turing machines.