Complexity Classes and Comparison To Deterministic Turing Machines
The following complexity classes are useful to define for ATMs:
- are the languages decidable in polynomial time
- are the languages decidable in polynomial space
- are the languages decidable in exponential time
These are similar to the definitions of P, PSPACE, and EXPTIME, considering the resources used by an ATM rather than a deterministic Turing machine. Chandra, Kozen, and Stockmeyer proved the theorems
- AP = PSPACE
- APSPACE = EXPTIME
- AEXPTIME = EXPSPACE
When and This is expressed by the Parallel computation thesis.
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