2-manifold recognition is in logspace

Authors

  • Benjamin A Burton The University of Queensland
  • Murray Elder The University of Newcastle http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2438-3945
  • Arkadius Kalka Bar Ilan University
  • Stephan Tillmann The University of Sydney

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20382/jocg.v7i1a4

Abstract

We prove that the homeomorphism problem for 2--manifolds can be decided in logspace. The proof relies on Reingold's logspace solution to the undirected $s,t$-connectivity problem in graphs.

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Published

2016-02-15

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2016)

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