Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Organization and Chapter Summaries
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and Preliminaries
- 2 P, NP, and NP-Completeness
- 3 Variations on P and NP
- 4 More Resources, More Power?
- 5 Space Complexity
- 6 Randomness and Counting
- 7 The Bright Side of Hardness
- 8 Pseudorandom Generators
- 9 Probabilistic Proof Systems
- 10 Relaxing the Requirements
- Epilogue
- Appendix A Glossary of Complexity Classes
- Appendix B On the Quest for Lower Bounds
- Appendix C On the Foundations of Modern Cryptography
- Appendix D Probabilistic Preliminaries and Advanced Topics in Randomization
- Appendix E Explicit Constructions
- Appendix F Some Omitted Proofs
- Appendix G Some Computational Problems
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Organization and Chapter Summaries
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and Preliminaries
- 2 P, NP, and NP-Completeness
- 3 Variations on P and NP
- 4 More Resources, More Power?
- 5 Space Complexity
- 6 Randomness and Counting
- 7 The Bright Side of Hardness
- 8 Pseudorandom Generators
- 9 Probabilistic Proof Systems
- 10 Relaxing the Requirements
- Epilogue
- Appendix A Glossary of Complexity Classes
- Appendix B On the Quest for Lower Bounds
- Appendix C On the Foundations of Modern Cryptography
- Appendix D Probabilistic Preliminaries and Advanced Topics in Randomization
- Appendix E Explicit Constructions
- Appendix F Some Omitted Proofs
- Appendix G Some Computational Problems
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Computational ComplexityA Conceptual Perspective, pp. vii - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008