Advanced Complexity Theory

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BPP collapses to P in the presence of powerful circuit lower bounds. (Image by MIT OpenCourseWare.)

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18.405J / 6.841J

As Taught In

Spring 2016

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

This graduate-level course focuses on current research topics in computational complexity theory. Topics include: Nondeterministic, alternating, probabilistic, and parallel computation models; Boolean circuits; Complexity classes and complete sets; The polynomial-time hierarchy; Interactive proof systems; Relativization; Definitions of randomness; Pseudo-randomness and derandomizations;Interactive proof systems and probabilistically checkable proofs.

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Dana Moshkovitz, and Mohammad Bavarian. 18.405J Advanced Complexity Theory. Spring 2016. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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