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We show how existing P systems with active membranes can be used as modules inside a larger P system; this allows us to simulate subroutines or oracles. As an application of this construction, which is (in principle) quite general, we provide a new, improved lower bound to the complexity class PMC \(_{\mathcal{AM}(-{\rm d},-{\rm n})}\) of problems solved by polynomial-time P systems with (restricted) elementary active membranes: this class is proved to contain P PP and hence, by Toda’s theorem, the whole polynomial hierarchy.
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Porreca, A.E., Leporati, A., Mauri, G., Zandron, C. (2012). P Systems Simulating Oracle Computations. In: Gheorghe, M., Păun, G., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A., Verlan, S. (eds) Membrane Computing. CMC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7184. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28024-5_23
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