ZPP (complexity) - Connection To Other Classes

Connection To Other Classes

Since ZPP = RP ∩ coRP, ZPP is obviously contained in both RP and coRP.

The class P is contained in ZPP, and some computer scientists have conjectured that P = ZPP, i.e., every Las Vegas algorithm has a deterministic polynomial-time equivalent.

A proof for ZPP = EXPTIME (though that is almost certainly false) would imply that P ≠ ZPP, as P ≠ EXPTIME (see time hierarchy theorem).

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