BPL (complexity)

BPL (complexity)

In computational complexity theory, BPL (Bounded-error Probabilistic Logarithmic-space), [ [http://qwiki.stanford.edu/wiki/Complexity_Zoo:B#bpl Complexity Zoo: BPL] ] sometimes called BPLP (Bounded-error Probabilistic Logarithmic-space Polynomial-time), [A. Borodin, S.A. Cook, P.W. Dymond, W.L. Ruzzo, and M. Tompa. Two applications of inductive counting for complementation problems. SIAM Journal on Computing, 18(3):559–578. 1989.] is the complexity class of problems solvable in logarithmic space and polynomial time with probabilistic Turing machines with two-sided error. It is named in analogy with BPP, which is similar but has no logarithmic space restriction.

The probabilistic Turing machines in the definition of BPL may only accept or reject incorrectly less than 1/3 of the time; this is called "two-sided error". The constant 1/3 is arbitrary; any "x" with 0 ≤ "x" < 1/2 would suffice. This error can be made 2−"p"("x") times smaller for any polynomial "p"("x") without using more than polynomial time or logarithmic space by running the algorithm repeatedly.

Since two-sided error is more general than one-sided error, RL and its complement co-RL are contained in BPL. BPL is also contained in PL, which is similar except that the error bound is 1/2, instead of a constant less than 1/2; like the class PP, the class PL is less practical because it may require a large number of rounds to reduce the error probability to a small constant.

Nisan showed in 1992 the weak derandomization result that BPL is contained in SC [N. Nisan. RL is contained in SC, Proceedings of ACM STOC'92, pp. 619-623, 1992.] , the class of problems solvable in polynomial time and polylogarithmic space on a deterministic Turing machine; in other words, given "polylogarithmic" space, a deterministic machine can simulate "logarithmic" space probabilistic algorithms.

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