## The polynomial-time hierarchy.(English)Zbl 0353.02024

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 03D55 Hierarchies of computability and definability 03D20 Recursive functions and relations, subrecursive hierarchies 03D40 Word problems, etc. in computability and recursion theory 03D10 Turing machines and related notions 68Q25 Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity 68Q45 Formal languages and automata
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