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NeuroCOLT Technical Report NC-TR-98-011

How many connected components must a difficult set have?

Martin Matamala
Universidad de Chile

Klaus Meer
RWTH
Aachen

Keywords: Connected components; sparseness; real number complexity

Received: MAY, 1998


Abstract
In this tutorial we seek to outline some of the features which arise when analyzing the same computational problems in different complexity theoretic frameworks. We focus on two problems:
- the first relates to mathematical optimization, and
- the second deals with the intrinsic structure of complexity classes.
Both examples serve well for examining how far different approaches to the same problem may shed light upon each other, but also allow the application of intrinsically different methods focussing on other aspects, sometimes leading to diverse results.

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