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CSCI142 HM - Complexity Theory


Credit(s): 3

Instructor(s): Pippenger (Mathematics)

Description: Brief review of computability theory through Rice’s Theorem and the Recursion Theorem followed by a rigorous treatment of complexity theory. The complexity classes P, NP, and the Cook-Levin Theorem. Approximability of NP-complete problems. The polynomial hierarchy, PSPACE-completeness, L and NL-completeness, #P-completeness. IP and Zero-knowledge proofs. Randomized and parallel complexity classes. The speedup, hierarchy, and gap theorems. (Crosslisted as MATH167 HM )

Prerequisite(s): CSCI081 HM