Subrecursive Programming Systems Complexity & Succinctness

This book is suitable for researchers aquainted with the theory of computation and comfortable with mathematical proofs. It can also be used by computer science and mathematics advanced undergraduates and graduates.

1 Introduction.- 1.1 What This Book is About.- 1.2 Outline of Part I. A Subrecursion Programming Systems Toolkit.- 1.3 Outline of Part II. Program Succinctness.- 1.4 Brief History of Prior Results.- 1.5 How to Use This Book.- 1.6 Acknowledgments.- I A Subrecursion Programming Systems Toolkit.- 2 Basic Notation and Definitions.- 3 Deterministic Multi-tape Turing Machines.- 4 Programming Systems.- 5 The LOOP Hierarchy.- 6 The Poly-Degree Hierarchy.- 7 Delayed Enumeration and Limiting Recursion.- 8 Inseparability Notions.- 9 Toolkit Demonstrations.- II Program Succinctness.- 10 Notions of Succinctness.- 11 Limiting-Recursive Succinctness Progressions.- 12 Succinctness for Finite and Infinite Variants.- 13 Succinctness for Singleton Sets.- 14 Further Problems.- Appendix A Exercises.- Appendix B Solutions for Selected Exercises.- Notation Index.