Complexity Class coNP\mathsf{coNP}

The decision problems of the form ∀y W(x,y)\forall y\, W(x, y), where yy has size polynomial in ∣x∣|x| and WW is decidable in polynomial time: xx is a yes-instance if and only if every candidate yy passes the check, so no-instances have short counterexamples. These are the complements of the problems in NP\mathsf{NP}.

Reference

Papadimitriou, C.H. (1994). Computational Complexity. Addison-Wesley.

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