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  || 08.11 || There is an oracle B such that P^B is not equal to NP^B. Probabilistic computation. Probabilistic machines, the class BPP, invariance of the definition BPP for different thresholds, RP, coRP, PP, ZPP. || [https://www.dropbox.com/s/36ov36op8wvkdf7/prob_9.pdf?dl=0 Problem list 9]
 
  || 08.11 || There is an oracle B such that P^B is not equal to NP^B. Probabilistic computation. Probabilistic machines, the class BPP, invariance of the definition BPP for different thresholds, RP, coRP, PP, ZPP. || [https://www.dropbox.com/s/36ov36op8wvkdf7/prob_9.pdf?dl=0 Problem list 9]
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|| 16/10 || Interpretation of PSPACE in terms of games.  Probabilistic computation. Probabilistic machines, the class BPP, prime testing and Carmichael numbers, invariance of the definition BPP for different thresholds, RP, coRP, PP, ZPP. BPP is in P/poly.
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  || 13/11 || Streaming algorithms: finding the majority element, computation of the moment F_2 in logarithmic space, lower-bound for exact and probabilistic computation of F_0 using one-shot communication complexity. [http://theory.stanford.edu/~tim/w15/l/l1.pdf Roughgarden's lecture notes]  
|| [https://www.dropbox.com/s/adl3acqeqebctbk/prob_7.pdf?dl=0 Problem list 7]
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  || [https://www.dropbox.com/s/nbc2m3gama625po/prob_10.pdf?dl=0 Problem list 10]  
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|| 30/10 || Computations with oracles, its simple properties. There are oracles A and B such that P^A is equal to NP^A and P^B is not equal to NP^B.
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|| [https://www.dropbox.com/s/n18684gtl9kd9i9/prob_8.pdf?dl=0 Problem list 8]
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|| 6/11 || Circuit complexity: directed reachability in AC1, NC0 is trivial, polynomial size Boolean formulas equal NC_1, relations with L and NL. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/txpwymgx1s7f4id/09lect.pdf?dl=0 Lecture notes]
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|| [http://www.mi.ras.ru/~podolskii/files/computability1819/prob_9.pdf Problem list 9]
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  || 13/11 || Streaming algorithms: finding the majority element, computation of moments F_0 and F_2 in logarithmic space, lower-bounds using one-shot communication complexity. [http://theory.stanford.edu/~tim/w15/l/l1.pdf Roughgarden's lecture notes]  
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  || [https://www.dropbox.com/s/z6qygibdhoioo4g/prob_10.pdf?dl=0 Problem list 10]  
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  || 20/11 || Communication protocols. Functions EQ, GT, DISJ, IP. Fooling sets. Combinatorial rectangles. Rectangle size lower bound. Rank lower bound. Book: [http://infotheorytcs.wikischolars.columbia.edu/file/view/Noam+Nisan+and+Eyal+Kushilevitz+-+Communication+Complexity.pdf Nisan Kushilevich: communication complexity, 1997]
 
  || 20/11 || Communication protocols. Functions EQ, GT, DISJ, IP. Fooling sets. Combinatorial rectangles. Rectangle size lower bound. Rank lower bound. Book: [http://infotheorytcs.wikischolars.columbia.edu/file/view/Noam+Nisan+and+Eyal+Kushilevitz+-+Communication+Complexity.pdf Nisan Kushilevich: communication complexity, 1997]

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General Information

Classes: Fridays, 15:10-18:00, R406

Grading

Homework results

Dates and Deadlines

Homework 1, deadline: 4 October, before the lecture
Homework 2, deadline: 8 November, before the lecture

Deadline for problem list 8 is extended till November 15
Problem 3.5 was restated in the problem list 9, new deadline is November 15

Course Materials

In the first 10 lectures, we follow Sipser's book "Introduction to the theory of computation" Chapters 7, 8, 9 (not Theorem 9.15), and Section 10.2.

If you need some background in math, consider these two sourses:
Lecure notes: Discrete Mathematics, L. Lovasz, K. Vesztergombi
Лекции по дискретной математике (черновик учебника, in Russian)


Date Summary Problem list
06.09 Turing machines, multitape Turing machines, connection between them. Examples. Time and space complexity. Complexity classes P, PSPACE, EXP. Problem list 1 Updated: 07.09.19
13.09 Universal Turing machine. Space hierarchy theorem. Space constructable functions. Problem list 2
20.09 Complexity class NP. Examples. Inclusions between P, NP and PSPACE. Non-deterministic TMs. Another definition of NP. Polynomial reductions, their properties. NP-hardness and NP-completeness, their properties. Problem list 3
27.09 Circuit complexity. Examples. All functions are computed by circuits. Existence of functions with exponential circuit complexity. P is in P/poly. Problem list 4
04.10 NP-completeness: Circuit-SAT, 3-SAT, IND-SET, BIN-INT-PROG Problem list 5
11.10 NP-completeness: Subset-SUM, 3COLORING. coNP, completeness of CIRC-TAUT Problem list 6
18.10 Space complexity. Classes L, NL, PSPACE and NPSPACE. Directed Reachability is in SPACE(log^2 n). Configuration graph. Inclusions between time and space classes. TQBF problem, its PSPACE-completeness. PSPACE = NPSPACE. NSPACE(s(n)) is in SPACE(s(n)^2) for space constructable s. Problem list 7
01.11 PSPACE-completeness of formula game and generalized geography. Oracle computation definitions. There exists a language A for which P^A = NP^A. Problem list 8
08.11 There is an oracle B such that P^B is not equal to NP^B. Probabilistic computation. Probabilistic machines, the class BPP, invariance of the definition BPP for different thresholds, RP, coRP, PP, ZPP. Problem list 9
13/11 Streaming algorithms: finding the majority element, computation of the moment F_2 in logarithmic space, lower-bound for exact and probabilistic computation of F_0 using one-shot communication complexity. Roughgarden's lecture notes Problem list 10

For interested students: lecture notes on quantum computation

Office hours

Person Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Vladimir Podolskii, room S830
Bruno Bauwens, room S834 14-18h 14-19h 18-19h