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- From: gore@pepper.rutgers.edu (Bittu)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Functions
- Keywords: Subexponential
- Message-ID: <Nov.19.12.14.36.1992.3136@pepper.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 17:14:37 GMT
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- I am trying to figure out if a certain class of functions is well
- defined and also trying to find good nontrivial examples of functions
- that belong to this class. The functions can either be assumed to be
- from N to N or from [0,oo) to [0,oo) (I am more interested in the N to
- N case). Let me define a class "subexp" first:
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- f is in subexp if for every e > 0, f(n) = o(2^(n^e))
- this is little oh ^
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- Now define the class subsubexp with the follwing restriction:
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- For any two functions f and g in subsubexp, their composition must be
- in subexp.
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- Is subsubexp well defined? I know that functions like 2^((log n)^k)
- for any k are in subsubexp, but I want better examples. Maybe there
- are functions that come out of combinatorial analysis (like the Ramsey
- function R(n,n) for instance) that belong to subsubexp.
-
- --Vivek
-