• DocumentCode
    2822486
  • Title

    Complicated complementations

  • Author

    Buhrman, Harry ; Torenvliet, L.

  • Author_Institution
    CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    1999
  • Firstpage
    227
  • Lastpage
    236
  • Abstract
    Kolmogorov complexity has proven to be a very useful tool in simplifying and improving proofs that use complicated combinatorial arguments. Using Kolmogorov complexity for oracle construction, we obtain separation results that are much stronger than separations obtained previously even with the use of very complicated combinatorial arguments. Moreover the use of Kolmogorov arguments almost trivializes the construction itself: In particular we construct relativized worlds where: 1. NP∩CoNP∈P/poly. 2. NP has a set that is both simple and NP∩CoNP-immune. 3. CoNP has a set that is both simple and NP∩CoNP-immune. 4. Π2p has a set that is both simple and Π2p∩Σ2p-immune
  • Keywords
    computational complexity; Kolmogorov complexity; complicated complementations; Computer science; Polynomials; TV; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational Complexity, 1999. Proceedings. Fourteenth Annual IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Atlanta, GA
  • ISSN
    1093-0159
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-0075-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CCC.1999.766281
  • Filename
    766281