• DocumentCode
    3358418
  • Title

    The power of witness reduction

  • Author

    Gupta, Sanjay

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA
  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    30 Jun-3 Jul 1991
  • Firstpage
    43
  • Lastpage
    59
  • Abstract
    Recent results by M. Ogiwara and L.A. Hemachandra (1990) established a connection between functions being hard for a class of functions and functions interacting with the class to effect witness reduction. The author believes that the ability to achieve some form of witness reduction is what makes a function hard for a class of functions. To support this thesis he defines new function classes and obtains results analogous to those of Ogiwara and Hemachandra. He also introduces the notion of randomly hard functions and obtains similar results
  • Keywords
    computational complexity; function classes; randomly hard functions; witness reduction; Complexity theory; Polynomials;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Structure in Complexity Theory Conference, 1991., Proceedings of the Sixth Annual
  • Conference_Location
    Chicago, IL
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-2255-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SCT.1991.160242
  • Filename
    160242