15-453 Formal Languages, Automata, and Computation
Lecture 31: The Class NP

We show that the class NP can be defined in two equivalent ways: via non-deterministic Turing machines or via a polynomial-time verifier. We then examine further problems which lie in the class NP, such as CLIQUE and SUBSET-SUM.


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