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NP-complete languages are reducible to each other in polynomial time. Does this mean that they are also log-space reducible to each other?

It seems as if this is true because in log-space, we can have polynomially many computations.

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Wikipedia makes the following points:

  1. It is unknown whether all NP-complete languages are NP-complete also with respect to logspace reductions.

  2. However, "all known" NP-complete languages are NP-complete also with respect to logspace reductions.

  3. There are some hints that a weaker class of reductions, AC0 reductions, may result in a different notion of NP-completeness.

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