Lecture : Complexity of Finding a Nash Equilibrium
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NP stands for non-deterministic polynomial. It is a class of problems that are at the core of complexity theory. The classical definition is in terms of yes-no problems; here, we are concerned with the search problem form of the definition. Definition 1 (Complexity class NP). The class of all search problems. A search problem A is a binary predicate A(x, y) that is efficiently (in polynomial time) computable and balanced (the length of x and y do not differ exponentially). Intuitively, x is an instance of the problem and y is a solution. The search problem for A is this:
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تاریخ انتشار 2011