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Neil Immerman proved closure of nondeterministic space under complementation for space bounds at least logarithmic, independently of the result associated with the other name in the Immerman–Szelepcsényi theorem. In particular, $\mathrm{NL}=\mathrm{coNL}$. His paper's proof uses inductive counting of reachable configurations.^[ref]

The obstacle is that guessing a path certifies reachability, while failure of one guessed path does not certify nonreachability. Counting the complete reachable set and verifying its enumeration supplies the missing certificate within a small space bound. This makes complementation possible without storing every reached configuration at once. The result concerns nondeterministic space, and does not establish the analogous equality $\mathrm{NP}=\mathrm{coNP}$ for polynomial time.

By Neil Immerman. SIAM Journal on Computing 17(5), 935–938, 1988.

Author-hosted primary paper: people.cs.umass.edu/~immerman/pub/space.pdf

Theorem 1 and Lemmas 1–2 establish complement closure by counting reachable configurations and verifying complete reachable-set enumeration.