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Counting complexity classes over the reals I: The additive case

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Abstract

We define a counting class #Padd in the Blum-Shub-Smale-setting of additive computations over the reals. Structural properties of this class are studied, including a characterization in terms of the classical counting class #P introduced by Valiant. We also establish transfer theorems for both directions between the real additive and the discrete setting. Then we characterize in terms of completeness results the complexity of computing basic topological invariants of semi-linear sets given by additive circuits. It turns out that the computation of the Euler characteristic is FPadd#Padd-complete, while for fixed k, the computation of the kth Betti number is FPARadd-complete. Thus the latter is more difficult under standard complexity theoretic assumptions. We use all the above to prove some analogous completeness results in the classical setting. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAlgorithms and Computation
Subtitle of host publication14th International Symposium, ISAAC 2003, Kyoto, Japan, December 15-17, 2003, Proceedings
EditorsToshihide Ibaraki, Naoki Katoh, Hirotaka Ono
PublisherSpringer 
Pages625-634
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-540-24587-2
ISBN (Print)978-3-540-20695-8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2003
Event14th Annual International S- posium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2003) - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: 15 Dec 200317 Dec 2003

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume2906
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th Annual International S- posium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2003)
PlaceJapan
CityKyoto
Period15/12/0317/12/03

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