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Meeting 6.2: More on reversible circuits, and quantum circuits

I follow up more thoroughly on RSAT, an NP-complete satisfiability problem for Boolean reversible circuits. It actually has several variants, of which we discuss 2. (See my Section 2.2 of one of my…

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Meeting 4.1: Complexity

I continue to review some of the usual suspects in complexity: P, NP, PSPACE, EXP and such. I then introduce two basic notions of reduction: polynomial-time many-one reductions (aka Karp reductions)…

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