A combinatorial technique for separating counting complexity classes

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Title: A combinatorial technique for separating counting complexity classes
Authors: Torán Romero, Jacobo
Publication Year: 1988
Collection: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech: UPCommons - Global access to UPC knowledge
Subject Terms: Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica, Combinatorial analysis -- Data processing, Computational complexity, Combinatòria, Complexitat, Anàlisi combinatòria -- Informàtica, Complexitat computacional
Description: We introduce a new combinatorial technique to obtain relativized separations of certain complexity classes related to the idea of counting, like PP, G (exact counting), and ¿P (parity). To demonstrate its usefulness we present three relativizations separating NP from G, NP from ¿P and ¿P from PP. Other separations follow from these results, and as a consequence we obtain an oracle separating PP from PSPACE, thus solving an open problem proposed by Angluin in [An,80]. From the relativized separations to obtain absolute separations for counting complexity classes with log-time bounded computation time. ; Postprint (published version)
Document Type: report
File Description: 14 p.; application/pdf
Language: English
Relation: LSI-88-7; Torán, J. "A combinatorial technique for separating counting complexity classes". 1988.; https://hdl.handle.net/2117/189298
Availability: https://hdl.handle.net/2117/189298
Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ ; Open Access ; Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain
Accession Number: edsbas.8FBB31B
Database: BASE
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