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Generally, complexity classes that have a recursive enumeration have known complete problems, whereas classes that lack a recursive enumeration have none. For example,
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Normally, it is assumed that the reduction in question does not have higher computational complexity than the class itself. Therefore, it may be said that if a
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if it is, in a technical sense, among the "hardest" (or "most expressive") problems in the complexity class.
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There are classes without complete problems. For example, Sipser showed that there is a language
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problem has a "computationally easy" solution, then all problems in "C" have an "easy" solution.
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Sipser, Michael (1982). "On relativization and the existence of complete sets".
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Notion of the "hardest" or "most general" problem in a complexity class
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if there exists a reduction (of the given type) from any problem in
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"Complete" complexity
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computational complexity theory
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10.1007/BFb0012797
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