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α-connectivity is a graph problem whose complexity gradually increases as the single parameter α grows. It is known that (i) α-connectivity is in NCt when α=c(logn)t−2/2, and (ii) it is P-complete when α=cne. Unfortunately, the above (i) is only a result on increasing upper bounds. In this paper, we give more reasonable and stronger evidence that the complexity of α-connectivity really increases gradually as α grows. It is shown that α-connectivity can simulate gradually larger-size circuits as α grows. If at most α−1 gates in each level of the circuit can have value 1, then α-connectivity can simulate gradually larger-depth circuits. We finally show evidence suggesting that these simulating powers of α-connectivity are best possible.
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Iwamoto, C., Iwama, K. (1994). Extended graph connectivity and its gradually increasing parallel complexity. In: Du, DZ., Zhang, XS. (eds) Algorithms and Computation. ISAAC 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 834. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58325-4_214
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