{"title":"Combinatorics and Kolmogorov complexity","authors":"Ming Li, P. Vitányi","doi":"10.1109/SCT.1991.160256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCT.1991.160256","url":null,"abstract":"The authors investigate combinatorial properties of finite sequences with high Kolmogorov complexity. They also demonstrate the utility of a Kolmogorov complexity method in combinatorial theory by several examples (such as the coin-weighing problem).<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":158682,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Structure in Complexity Theory Conference","volume":"241 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123097451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Super-logarithmic depth lower bounds via direct sum in communication complexity","authors":"M. Karchmer, R. Raz, A. Wigderson","doi":"10.1109/SCT.1991.160273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCT.1991.160273","url":null,"abstract":"The question of whether it is easier to solve two communication problems together rather than separately is related to the complexity of the composition of Boolean functions. Based on this relationship, an approach to separating NC/sup 1 /from P is outlined. Furthermore, it is shown that the approach provides a new proof of the separation of monotone NC/sup 1/ from monotone P.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":158682,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Structure in Complexity Theory Conference","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117270343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Allender, L. Hemaspaandra, M. Ogihara, O. Watanabe
{"title":"Relating equivalence and reducibility to sparse sets","authors":"E. Allender, L. Hemaspaandra, M. Ogihara, O. Watanabe","doi":"10.1109/SCT.1991.160264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCT.1991.160264","url":null,"abstract":"For various polynomial-time reducibilities r, the authors ask whether being r-reducible to a sparse set is a broader notion than being r-equivalent to a sparse set. Although distinguishing equivalence and reducibility to sparse sets, for many-one or 1-truth-table reductions, would imply that P not=NP, the authors show that for k-truth-table reductions, k>or=2, equivalence and reducibility to sparse sets provably differ. Though R. Gavalda and D. Watanabe have shown that, for any polynomial-time computable unbounded function f(.), some sets f(n)-truth-table reducible to sparse sets are not even Turing equivalent to sparse sets, the authors show that extending their result to the 2-truth-table case would provide a proof that P not=NP. Additionally, the authors study the relative power of different notions of reducibility and show that disjunctive and conjunctive truth-table reductions to sparse sets are surprisingly powerful, refuting a conjecture of K. Ko (1989).<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":158682,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Structure in Complexity Theory Conference","volume":"193 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116447085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Approximation properties of NP minimization classes","authors":"Phokion G. Kolaitis, Madhukar N. Thakur","doi":"10.1109/SCT.1991.160280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCT.1991.160280","url":null,"abstract":"The authors introduce a novel approach to the logical definability of NP optimization problems by focusing on the expressibility of feasible solutions. They show that in this framework first-order sentences capture exactly all polynomially bounded optimization problems. They also show that, assuming P not=NP, it is an undecidable problem to determine whether a given first-order sentence defines an approximable optimization problem. They then isolate a syntactically defined class of NP minimization problems that contains the min set cover problem and has the property that every problem in it has a logarithmic approximation algorithm. They conclude by giving a machine-independent characterization of the NP=co-NP problem in terms of logical expressibility of the max clique problem.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":158682,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Structure in Complexity Theory Conference","volume":"381 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116058893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The complexity of malign ensembles","authors":"Peter Bro Miltersen","doi":"10.1109/SCT.1991.160257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCT.1991.160257","url":null,"abstract":"The author analyzes the concept of malignness, which is the property of probability ensembles making the average case running time equal to the worst-case running time for a class of algorithms. He derives lower and upper bounds on the complexity of malign ensembles, which are tight for exponential time algorithms and which show that no polynomial time computable malign ensemble exists for the class of polynomial time algorithms. Furthermore, he shows that for no class of superlinear algorithms does a polynomial time computable malign ensemble exist, unless every language in P has an expected polynomial time constructor.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":158682,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Structure in Complexity Theory Conference","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114909574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Capturing complexity classes by fragments of second order logic","authors":"E. Gradel","doi":"10.1109/SCT.1991.160279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCT.1991.160279","url":null,"abstract":"The expressive power of certain fragments of second-order logic on finite structures is investigated. The fragments are second-order Horn logic, second-order Krom logic, and a symmetric and a deterministic version of the latter. It is shown that all these logics collapse to their existential fragments. In the presence of a successor relation they provide characterizations of polynomial time, deterministic and nondeterministic logspace and of the complement of symmetric logspace. Without a successor relation these logics can still express certain problems that are complete in the corresponding complexity classes, but they are strictly weaker than previously known logics for these classes and fail to express some very simple properties.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":158682,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Structure in Complexity Theory Conference","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123313491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}