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CATEGORICAL COMPLEXITY

Part of: Computational aspects in algebraic geometry Theory of computing General theory of categories and functors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2020

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UMUT ISIK
SAUGATA BASU
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA; sbasu@math.purdue.edu
UMUT ISIK
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA; isik@math.uci.edu

Abstract

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We introduce a notion of complexity of diagrams (and, in particular, of objects and morphisms) in an arbitrary category, as well as a notion of complexity of functors between categories equipped with complexity functions. We discuss several examples of this new definition in categories of wide common interest such as finite sets, Boolean functions, topological spaces, vector spaces, semilinear and semialgebraic sets, graded algebras, affine and projective varieties and schemes, and modules over polynomial rings. We show that on one hand categorical complexity recovers in several settings classical notions of nonuniform computational complexity (such as circuit complexity), while on the other hand it has features that make it mathematically more natural. We also postulate that studying functor complexity is the categorical analog of classical questions in complexity theory about separating different complexity classes.

MSC classification

Primary: 18A10: Graphs, diagram schemes, precategories 68Q15: Complexity classes (hierarchies, relations among complexity classes, etc.)
Secondary: 14Q20: Effectivity, complexity

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Discrete Mathematics
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Forum of Mathematics, Sigma , Volume 8 , 2020 , e34
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