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Switching graphs and their complexity

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Due to certain branching program based characterizations of the nonuniform complexity classes

we prove the p-projection completeness of a number of extremely restricted modifications of the GRAPH-ACCESSIBILITY-PROBLEMS for switching graphs.

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Antoni Kreczmar Grazyna Mirkowska

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Meinel, C. (1989). Switching graphs and their complexity. In: Kreczmar, A., Mirkowska, G. (eds) Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 1989. MFCS 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 379. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51486-4_82

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