On the computational complexity of Longeley's H functional

  • Authors:
  • James S. Royer

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science - Implicit computational complexity
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Longley discovered a functional H that, when added to PCF, yields a language that computes exactly SR, the sequentially realizable functionals of van Oosten. We show that if P ≠ NP, then the computational complexity of H (and of similar SR-functionals) is inherently infeasible.