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This is a branch that includes: computational complexity theory; complexity classes, NP-completeness and other completeness concepts; oracle analogues of complexity classes; complexity-theoretic computational models; regular languages; context-free languages; Kolmogorov Complexity and so on.

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What is the relationship between "translation" and time complexity?

Consider the problem of deciding a language $L$; for concreteness, say that this is the graph isomorphism problem. That is, $L$ consists of pairs of graphs $(G, H)$ such that $G\simeq H$. Now the ti …
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What is the shortest program for which halting is unknown?

In short, my question is: What is the shortest computer program for which it is not known whether or not the program halts? Of course, this depends on the description language; I also have the f …
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How long are the certificates produced by the Zeilberger and WZ methods for solving combinat...

In the book "A = B" by Petkovesk, Wilf, and Zeilberger, (downloadable here), the authors provide several algorithmic methods for finding closed forms or recurrences for sums involving e.g. binomial co …
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Structure theorems for Turing-decidable languages?

Languages decidable by weak models of computation often have certain necessary characteristics, e.g. the pumping lemma for regular languages or the pumping lemma for context-free languages. Such char …
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