# On the Power of Parity Polynomial Time

@inproceedings{Cai1989OnTP,
title={On the Power of Parity Polynomial Time},
author={Jin-Yi Cai and Lane A. Hemaspaandra},
booktitle={STACS},
year={1989}
}
• Published in STACS 1989
• Mathematics, Computer Science
This paper proves that the complexity class ⊕P, parity polynomial time [PZ83], contains the class of languages accepted by NP machines with few accepting paths. Indeed, ⊕P contains a broad class of languages accepted by path-restricted nondeterministic machines.
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