• DocumentCode
    2517399
  • Title

    Oracles for structural properties: the isomorphism problem and public-key cryptography

  • Author

    Homer, Steven ; Selman, Alan L.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Boston Univ., MA, USA
  • fYear
    1989
  • fDate
    19-22 Jun 1989
  • Firstpage
    3
  • Lastpage
    14
  • Abstract
    There exists an oracle, relative to which P ≠ NP and each of the following properties hold: (i) all Σp2-complete sets are p-isomorphic; (ii) P-inseparable pairs of sets in NP do not exist; (iii) intractable public-key cryptosystems do not exist; and (iv) NP-complete sets are closed under union of disjoint sets. Remarkably, these properties all follow from one oracle construction, namely, it is proved that there is an oracle A such that every two disjoint sets in NPA are P-separable, and ΣP2=∪{DTIME(2p )| p is a polynomial}. Additional related relativization results are presented
  • Keywords
    computational complexity; cryptography; set theory; disjoint sets; isomorphism problem; public-key cryptography; relativization results; structural properties; Complexity theory; Computer science; Educational institutions; National security; Polynomials; Public key cryptography;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Structure in Complexity Theory Conference, 1989. Proceedings., Fourth Annual
  • Conference_Location
    Eugene, OR
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-1958-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SCT.1989.41809
  • Filename
    41809