\begin{frame}{The Classes EXP and NEXP} \begin{block}{} A nondeterministic Turing machine $M$ is \begin{itemize}\setlength{\itemsep}{-0.5ex} \item \emph{exponential time} if $M$ runs in time $2^{p(|x|)}$ and \item \emph{exponential space} if $M$ runs in space $2^{p(|x|)}$ \end{itemize} for some polynomial $p$. \end{block} \pause \begin{goal}{}\vspace{-.5ex} \begin{malign} \text{\emph{NEXP}} &= \{\, L(M) \mid \text{$M$ nondeterm.\ exponential time TM}\,\} \\[-.5ex] \text{\emph{EXP}} &= \{\, L(M) \mid \text{$M$ deterministic exponential time TM}\,\} \\[-.5ex] \text{\emph{NEXPSpace}} &= \{\, L(M) \mid \text{$M$ nondeterm.\ exponential space TM}\,\} \\[-.5ex] \text{\emph{EXPSpace}} &= \{\, L(M) \mid \text{$M$ deterministic exponential space TM}\,\} \end{malign} \end{goal} \pause \begin{block}{}\vspace{-1.5ex} \begin{talign} \text{P} \,\subseteq\, \text{NP} \,\subseteq\, \text{PSpace} \,\subseteq\, \text{EXP} \,\subseteq\, \text{NEXP} \,\subseteq\, \text{EXPSpace}\\[-3.5ex] \end{talign} It is unknown whether these inclusions are strict. We know \begin{talign} \text{P} \neq \text{EXP} && \text{NP} \neq \text{NEXP} && \text{PSpace} \neq \text{EXPSpace} = \text{NEXPSpace}\\[-3ex] \end{talign} \end{block} $\text{PSpace} \subseteq \text{EXP}$ holds since a polynomial-space TM can at most take an exponential number of configurations. \end{frame}