04

PSPACE and Beyond

Chapter 4 • Advanced

120 min

PSPACE and Beyond

Complexity Classes

P

Problems solvable in polynomial time.

NP

Problems verifiable in polynomial time.

PSPACE

Problems solvable in polynomial space.

EXPTIME

Problems solvable in exponential time.

Relationships

P ⊆ NP ⊆ PSPACE ⊆ EXPTIME

PSPACE-Complete Problems

Quantified Boolean Formula (QBF)

Given formula with quantifiers (∀, ∃), is it true?

Geography

Game on directed graph.

Planning

AI planning problems.

Practice Problems

  1. Identify complexity class
  2. PSPACE-complete problems
  3. Complexity hierarchy