First Order Bounded Arithmetic and Small Boolean Circuit Complexity Classes
First Order Bounded Arithmetic and Small Boolean Circuit Complexity Classes
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一阶有界算术和小型布尔电路复杂度类
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1995
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通讯作者:
G. Takeuti
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P. Clote;G. Takeuti
A well known result of proof theory is the characterization of primitive recursive functions ƒ as those provably recursive in the first order theory of Peano arithmetic with the induction axiom restricted to Σ1 formulas. In this paper, we study a variety of weak theories of first order arithmetic, whose provably total functions (with graphs of a certain form) are exactly those computable within some resource bound on a particular computation model (boolean circuits, with possible parity or MOD 6 gates, or threshold circuits, or alternating Turing machines, or ordinary Turing machines). To establish these kinds of results for small complexity classes, we provide a recursion-theoretic characterization of the complexity class, prove how one can encode sequences in very weak theories, and use the witnessing technique of [7].