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Structural complexity theory: Recent surprises

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This paper reviews the impact of some recent results on the research paradigms in structural complexity theory.

This research was supported in part by NSF Research Grant CCR 88-23053.

Supported in part by an IBM Graduate Fellowship.

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Hartmanis, J., Chang, R., Ranjan, D., Rohatgi, P. (1990). Structural complexity theory: Recent surprises. In: Gilbert, J.R., Karlsson, R. (eds) SWAT 90. SWAT 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 447. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-52846-6_73

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