Report on Generic Case Complexity

Robert Gilman; Alexei G. Miasnikov; Alexey D. Myasnikov; Alexander Ushakov

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Report on Generic Case Complexity

Robert Gilman·Alexei G. Miasnikov·Alexey D. Myasnikov·Alexander Ushakov

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This article is a short introduction to generic case complexity, which is a recently developed way of measuring the difficulty of a computational problem while ignoring atypical behavior on a small set of inputs. Generic case complexity applies to both recursively solvable and recursively unsolvable problems.

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Robert Gilman, Alexei G. Miasnikov, Alexey D. Myasnikov, Alexander Ushakov. 2007-07-10. Report on Generic Case Complexity. https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1364

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