{"title":"On limited nondeterminism and the complexity of the V-C dimension","authors":"C. Papadimitriou, M. Yannakakis","doi":"10.1109/SCT.1993.336545","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The complexity of several natural computational problems in NP, which have been proposed but not categorized satisfactorily in the literature is characterized precisely. These problems can be solved in n/sup O(logn)/ time, and thus they are probably not NP-complete. Two new complexity classes between P and NP, very much in the spirit of MAXNP and MAXSNP, are defined. It is shown that computing the V-C dimension is complete for the more general class, whereas the other two problems are complete for the weaker class.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":331616,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings of the Eigth Annual Structure in Complexity Theory Conference","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1993-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"223","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"[1993] Proceedings of the Eigth Annual Structure in Complexity Theory Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCT.1993.336545","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 223
Abstract
The complexity of several natural computational problems in NP, which have been proposed but not categorized satisfactorily in the literature is characterized precisely. These problems can be solved in n/sup O(logn)/ time, and thus they are probably not NP-complete. Two new complexity classes between P and NP, very much in the spirit of MAXNP and MAXSNP, are defined. It is shown that computing the V-C dimension is complete for the more general class, whereas the other two problems are complete for the weaker class.<>