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PSPACE


PSPACE is the class of decision problems solvable by a deterministic Turing machine using an amount of working storage bounded by a polynomial in the input length (Wayne 2005). The running time need not be bounded by a polynomial.

A decision problem is PSPACE-complete when it belongs to PSPACE and every problem in PSPACE can be transformed to it by a polynomial time many-one reduction. Such a reduction maps an input to a single new input with the same yes-or-no answer.


See also

Computational Complexity, Decision Problem, Polynomial Time, Turing Machine

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References

Wayne, K. "PSPACE: A Class of Problems Beyond NP." Lecture slides, Ch. 9, 2005. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~wayne/kleinberg-tardos/pearson/09PSPACE.pdf.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "PSPACE." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PSPACE.html

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