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  || 08.09 || Turing machines, multitape Turing machines, connection between them. Examples. Time and space complexity. Complexity classes P, PSPACE, EXP. || <!-- [https://www.dropbox.com/s/lxoenwqohopsoca/prob_1.pdf?dl=0 Problem list 1 ] --->
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  || 08.09 || Turing machines, multitape Turing machines, connection between them. Universal Turing machine. Examples. Time and space complexity. Complexity classes P, PSPACE, EXP. || <!-- [https://www.dropbox.com/s/lxoenwqohopsoca/prob_1.pdf?dl=0 Problem list 1 ] --->
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|| 13.09 || Universal Turing machine. Space hierarchy theorem. Space constructable functions. || </span>
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|| 15.09 || <span style="color:gray"> Time and space hierarchy theorem. Space constructable functions. </span> ||
 
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  || 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. ||  
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  || 22.09 || <span style="color:gray">  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. </span>  ||  
 
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  || 27.09 || Circuit complexity. Examples. All functions are computed by circuits. Existence of functions with exponential circuit complexity. P is in P/poly. ||  
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  || 29.09 || <span style="color:gray"> Circuit complexity. Examples. All functions are computed by circuits. Existence of functions with exponential circuit complexity. P is in P/poly. </span> ||  
 
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  || 04.10 || NP-completeness: Circuit-SAT, 3-SAT, IND-SET, BIN-INT-PROG ||  
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  || 06.10 || <span style="color:gray"> NP-completeness: Circuit-SAT, 3-SAT, IND-SET, BIN-INT-PROG </span> ||  
 
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  || 11.10 || NP-completeness: Subset-SUM, 3COLORING. coNP, completeness of CIRC-TAUT ||
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  || 13.10 || <span style="color:gray"> NP-completeness: Subset-SUM, 3COLORING. coNP, completeness of CIRC-TAUT   </span> ||
 
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  || 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. ||  
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  || 20.10 || <span style="color:gray"> 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. </span> ||  
 
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|| 01.11 || PSPACE-completeness of formula game and generalized geography. Oracle computation definitions. There exists a language A for which P^A = NP^A. ||  
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|| 03.11 || <span style="color:gray"> PSPACE-completeness of formula game and generalized geography. Oracle computation definitions. There exists a language A for which P^A = NP^A. </span>  ||  
 
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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. ||  
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  || 10.11 || <span style="color:gray"> 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. </span>  ||  
 
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  || 15/11 || 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]  
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  || 17.11 || <span style="color:gray"> 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] </span>
 
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  || 22/11 || Communication protocols. Functions EQ, GT, DISJ, IP. Fooling sets. Combinatorial rectangles. Rectangle size lower bound. Rank lower bound. Book: Nisan and Kushilevich: communication complexity, 1997 [https://epdf.pub/communication-complexity.html download]  
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  || 24.11 || <span style="color:gray"> Communication protocols. Functions EQ, GT, DISJ, IP. Fooling sets. Combinatorial rectangles. Rectangle size lower bound. Rank lower bound. Book: Nisan and Kushilevich: communication complexity, 1997 [https://epdf.pub/communication-complexity.html download] </span>
 
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  || 29/11 || Nondeterministic communication complexity. D(f) < O(N^0(f) N^1(f)). Deterministic complexity vs number of leafs in a protocol tree. Randomized communication complexity: definitions. Functions EQ, GT, MCE. Newman's theorem (only the statement)
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  || 01.12 || <span style="color:gray">  Nondeterministic communication complexity. D(f) < O(N^0(f) N^1(f)). Deterministic complexity vs number of leafs in a protocol tree. Randomized communication complexity: definitions. Functions EQ, GT, MCE. Newman's theorem (only the statement) </span>
 
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  || 6/12 || Probabilistic versus deterministic complexity. Newman's theorem. Space-time tradeoffs for Turing machines. See Nisan Kushilevich chapters 3 and 12.  
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  || 08.12 || <span style="color:gray"> Probabilistic versus deterministic complexity. Newman's theorem. Space-time tradeoffs for Turing machines. See Nisan Kushilevich chapters 3 and 12. </span>
 
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  || 20/12 || Questions from students about exercises and homework. Poly time reductions on graphs and NP-completeness of Hamiltonion graphs. (If interested, one-shot complexity of the disjointness problem, this is not for the exam.) Solving [http://www.mi-ras.ru/~podolskii/files/computability1819/exam171222.pdf the exam of 2 years ago].
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  || 22.12 || <span style="color:gray"> Questions from students about exercises and homework. Poly time reductions on graphs and NP-completeness of Hamiltonion graphs. Solving [http://www.mi-ras.ru/~podolskii/files/computability1819/exam171222.pdf the exam of 2 years ago]. </span>
 
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  || 11/12 || Linear programming is in NP, NP-completeness of Hamiltonian path, TQBF as a game, PSPACE-completeness of generalized geography. Various other NP-complete problems. || [https://www.dropbox.com/s/cifs60rf6vpfn3i/prob_14.pdf?dl=0 Problem list 14]  
 
  || 11/12 || Linear programming is in NP, NP-completeness of Hamiltonian path, TQBF as a game, PSPACE-completeness of generalized geography. Various other NP-complete problems. || [https://www.dropbox.com/s/cifs60rf6vpfn3i/prob_14.pdf?dl=0 Problem list 14]  

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General Information

Classes: Tuesdays, time?, room?

First lecture September 8.

Grading


Dates and Deadlines

Homework 1, deadline: 6 October, before the lecture
Homework 2, deadline: 3 November, before the lecture
Homework 3, deadline: 8 December, before the lecture


Course Materials

In the first 9 lectures, we follow Sipser's book "Introduction to the theory of computation" Chapters 3, 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
08.09 Turing machines, multitape Turing machines, connection between them. Universal Turing machine. Examples. Time and space complexity. Complexity classes P, PSPACE, EXP.
15.09 Time and space hierarchy theorem. Space constructable functions.
22.09 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.
29.09 Circuit complexity. Examples. All functions are computed by circuits. Existence of functions with exponential circuit complexity. P is in P/poly.
06.10 NP-completeness: Circuit-SAT, 3-SAT, IND-SET, BIN-INT-PROG
13.10 NP-completeness: Subset-SUM, 3COLORING. coNP, completeness of CIRC-TAUT
20.10 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.
03.11 PSPACE-completeness of formula game and generalized geography. Oracle computation definitions. There exists a language A for which P^A = NP^A.
10.11 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.
17.11 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
24.11 Communication protocols. Functions EQ, GT, DISJ, IP. Fooling sets. Combinatorial rectangles. Rectangle size lower bound. Rank lower bound. Book: Nisan and Kushilevich: communication complexity, 1997 download
01.12 Nondeterministic communication complexity. D(f) < O(N^0(f) N^1(f)). Deterministic complexity vs number of leafs in a protocol tree. Randomized communication complexity: definitions. Functions EQ, GT, MCE. Newman's theorem (only the statement)
08.12 Probabilistic versus deterministic complexity. Newman's theorem. Space-time tradeoffs for Turing machines. See Nisan Kushilevich chapters 3 and 12.
22.12 Questions from students about exercises and homework. Poly time reductions on graphs and NP-completeness of Hamiltonion graphs. Solving the exam of 2 years ago.



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