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28. Another Basis for the W-Hierarchy and the Tradeoff Theorem

Authors : Rodney G. Downey, Michael R. Fellows

Published in: Fundamentals of Parameterized Complexity

Publisher: Springer London

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Abstract

We give a uniform circuit basis for the W-hierarchy. We introduce the syntactic classes G[t] and prove the Replacement and Tradeoff Theorems. These lead to evidence that the W-hierarchy is proper and give a different perspective on its naturality.

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Metadata
Title
Another Basis for the W-Hierarchy and the Tradeoff Theorem
Authors
Rodney G. Downey
Michael R. Fellows
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer London
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5559-1_28

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