• 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