DocumentCode
2722503
Title
On separating complexity classes
Author
Book, Ronald V.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Math., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
fYear
1990
fDate
8-11 July 1990
Firstpage
299
Lastpage
304
Abstract
Some observations that suggest that certain separation results based on the use of random oracles will not provide information about the separation of the corresponding unrelativized classes (without some additional hypothesis) are presented. It is observed that J.-Y Cai´s (1989) result showing that for almost every set A , PH(A )≠PSPACE(A ), does not address the open question of whether PH is equal to PSPACE. In addition, it is observed that D. Bennett and J. Gill´s (1981) result that for almost every set A , P(A )≠NP(A ) does not address the open questions of whether P is equal to NP or whether BPP is equal to AM
Keywords
Turing machines; computational complexity; AM; BPP; NP; PH; PSPACE; Turing machines; complexity classes; random oracles; separation; unrelativized classes; Books; Mathematics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Structure in Complexity Theory Conference, 1990, Proceedings., Fifth Annual
Conference_Location
Barcelona
Print_ISBN
0-8186-6072-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/SCT.1990.113978
Filename
113978
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