PSPACE Algorithms and PSPACE-Complete
Shlomi Fish <shlomif-ik1l9ssToec+JF/[email protected]>
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I wrote about the algorithms' class NP and NP-Completeness here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hackers-il/message/2654 A few weeks ago I learned about PSPACE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSPACE It took me some time to understand what it was all about. Apparently, while P is the algorithms that can be solved in polynomial time (and polynomial space), and NP is the class of algorithms whose verification can be done in polynomial time (and still be solved in polynomial space after an exponential or better time), then PSPACE is the class of algorithms that can be solved using polynomial space and potentially inifinite time. So PSPACE contains NP. PSPACE-Complete are algorithms in PSPACE which every other algorithm in PSPACE can be reduced to them. Sokoban ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban ) was shown to be PSPACE-complete: http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~joe/Preprints/Sokoban/ Today when I visited wikipedia I also found about P-Complete: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-complete Another thing I wondered for some time, is whether there is a class "NNP" which is the class of algorithms whose verification algorithms are in NP. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish shlomif-ik1l9ssToec+JF/[email protected] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris wrote a complete Perl 6 implementation in a day but then destroyed all evidence with his bare hands, so no one will know his secrets.