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CSE200 - Computability and Complexity

Computability review, including halting problem, decidable sets, r.e. sets, many-one reductions; TIME(t(n)), SPACE(s(n)) and general relations between these classes; L, P, PSPACE, NP; NP - completeness; hierarchy theorems; RP, BPP.

Textbooks: 
  • Completeness: A Guide to Intractability, Garey and Johnson
  • Computational Complexity, Arora and Barak
Prerequisites: 

CSE 105 or equivalent

Revised Fall 2002