{"title":"The instance complexity conjecture","authors":"M. Kummer","doi":"10.1109/SCT.1995.514733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCT.1995.514733","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is concerned with instance complexity introduced by Ko, Orponen, Schoning, and Watanabe (1986) as a measure of the complexity of individual instances of a decision problem. They conjectured that for every nonrecursive r.e. set the instance complexity is infinitely often at least as high as the Kolmogorov complexity. We refute this conjecture by constructing a nonrecursive r.e. set with instance complexity logarithmic in the Kolmogorov complexity. This bound is optimal up to a constant. In the other extreme, we show that the conjecture can indeed be established for many classes of complete sets. In addition we consider Kolmogorov complexity of initial segments of r.e. sets and show that the well-known upper bound 2 log n is optimal.","PeriodicalId":318382,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Structure in Complexity Theory. Tenth Annual IEEE Conference","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125394064","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":"DSPACE(n)=?NSPACE(n): a degree theoretic characterization","authors":"Manindra Agrawal","doi":"10.1109/SCT.1995.514869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCT.1995.514869","url":null,"abstract":"It is shown that the following are equivalent: 1. DSPACE(n)=NSPACE(n). 2. There is a /spl les//sub m//sup 1-NL/-degree that coincides with a /spl les//sub m//sup 1-L/ degree. 3. For every class C closed under logspace reductions the /spl les//sub m//sup 1-NL/-complete degree of C coincides with the /spl les//sub m//sup 1-L/-complete degree of C.","PeriodicalId":318382,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Structure in Complexity Theory. Tenth Annual IEEE Conference","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122163185","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":"A small span theorem for P/Poly-Turing reductions","authors":"J. H. Lutz","doi":"10.1109/SCT.1995.514870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCT.1995.514870","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the structure of ESPACE under nonuniform Turing reductions that are computed by polynomial-size circuits (P/Poly-Turing reductions). A small span theorem is proven for such reductions. This result says that every language A in ESPACE satisfies at least one of the following two conditions. (i) The lower P/Poly-Turing span of A (consisting of all languages that are P/Poly-Turing reducible to A) has measure 0 in PSPACE. (ii) The upper P/Poly-Turing span of A (consisting of all languages to which A is P/Poly-Turing reducible) has pspace-measure 0, hence measure 0 in ESPACE. The small span theorem implies that every P/Poly-Turing degree has measure 0 in ESPACE, and that there exist languages that are weakly P-many-one complete, but not P/Poly-Turing complete for ESPACE. The method of proof is a significant departure from earlier proofs of small span theorems for weaker types of reductions. P/Poly-Turing span of A (consisting of all languages to which A is P/Poly-Turing reducible) has pspace-measure 0, hence measure 0 in ESPACE. The small span theorem implies that every P/Poly-Turing degree has measure 0 in ESPACE, and that there exist languages that are weakly P-many-one complete, but not P/Poly-Turing complete for ESPACE. The method of proof is a significant departure from earlier proofs of small span theorems for weaker types of reductions.","PeriodicalId":318382,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Structure in Complexity Theory. Tenth Annual IEEE Conference","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121413981","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":"Reductions of self-reducible sets to depth-1 weighted threshold circuit classes, and sparse sets","authors":"Manindra Agrawal, V. Arvind","doi":"10.1109/SCT.1995.514865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCT.1995.514865","url":null,"abstract":"Let LT/sub 1/ denote the class of languages accepted by nonuniform families of polynomial size depth-1 circuits with a linear weighted threshold gate at the root. We show that disjunctive self-reducible bd-cylinders that many-one reduce to LT/sub 1/ are in P. It follows that for C/spl isin.","PeriodicalId":318382,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Structure in Complexity Theory. Tenth Annual IEEE Conference","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133036270","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":"Restricted information from nonadaptive queries to NP","authors":"Yenjo Han, T. Thierauf","doi":"10.1109/SCT.1995.514859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCT.1995.514859","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate classes of sets that can be decided by bounded truth-table reductions to an NP set in which evaluators do not have full access to the answers to the queries but get only restricted information such as the number of queries that are in the oracle set or even just this number modulo m, for some m/spl ges/2. We also investigate the case in which evaluators are nondeterministic. We locate all these classes within levels of the Boolean hierarchy, which allows us to compare the complexity of such classes. Our results show the various degrees to which the power of P or NP evaluators are affected as the restricted information that the evaluators get from the answers to the queries produced by generators is changed.","PeriodicalId":318382,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Structure in Complexity Theory. Tenth Annual IEEE Conference","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134491814","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":"Optimizing TRIEs for ordered pattern matching is /spl Pi//sub 2//sup P/-complete","authors":"Chih-Long Lin","doi":"10.1109/SCT.1995.514862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCT.1995.514862","url":null,"abstract":"We consider the complexity of constructing a data structure, called TRIEs, with the minimum operational cost for the ordered pattern matching problem, a problem abstracting the essence of executing Prolog problems; a TRIE with minimal cost corresponds to a program with the minimum worst case operational cost. Based on the recent non-approximability results developed by Arora et al. (1992) and Condon et al. (1993), we show that to approximate the optimum cost of this problem to within some constant ratio is /spl Pi//sub 2//sup P/-hard. The result implies that the problem of Prolog program optimization is probably as hard.","PeriodicalId":318382,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Structure in Complexity Theory. Tenth Annual IEEE Conference","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115268999","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":"On the power of number-theoretic operations with respect to counting","authors":"U. Hertrampf, H. Vollmer, K. Wagner","doi":"10.1109/SCT.1995.514868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCT.1995.514868","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate function classes /sub f/ which are defined as the closure of P under the operation f and a set of known closure properties of P, e.g. summation over an exponential range. First, we examine operations f under which P is closed (i.e., /sub f/=P) in every relativization. We obtain the following complete characterization of these operations: P is closed under f in every relativization if and only if f is a finite sum of binomial coefficients over constants. Second, we characterize operations f with respect to their power in the counting context in the unrelativized case. For closure properties f of P, we have /sub f/= P. The other end of the range is marked by operations f for which /sub f/ corresponds to the counting hierarchy. We call these operations counting hard and give general criteria for hardness. For many operations f we show that /sub f/ corresponds to some subclass C of the counting hierarchy. This will then imply that P is closed under f if and only if UP=C; and on the other hand f is counting hard if and only if C contains the counting hierarchy.","PeriodicalId":318382,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Structure in Complexity Theory. Tenth Annual IEEE Conference","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117224917","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":"Fault tolerant circuits and probabilistically checkable proofs","authors":"A. Gál, M. Szegedy","doi":"10.1109/SCT.1995.514728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCT.1995.514728","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce a new model of fault tolerance for Boolean circuits. We consider synchronized circuits and we allow an adversary to choose a small constant fraction of the gates at each level of the circuit to be faulty. We require that even in the presence of such faults the circuit compute a \"loose version\" of the given function. We show that every symmetric function has a small (size O(n), depth O(log n)) fault tolerant circuit in this model. We also show a perhaps unexpected relation between our model and probabilistically checkable proofs.","PeriodicalId":318382,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Structure in Complexity Theory. Tenth Annual IEEE Conference","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122783130","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":"Intractability of read-once resolution","authors":"K. Iwama, Eiji Miyano","doi":"10.1109/SCT.1995.514725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCT.1995.514725","url":null,"abstract":"Read-once resolution (ROR) is a resolution proof system in which the rule (A+x)(B+.","PeriodicalId":318382,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Structure in Complexity Theory. Tenth Annual IEEE Conference","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126171389","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":"On the structure of low sets [complexity classes]","authors":"J. Kobler","doi":"10.1109/SCT.1995.514863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCT.1995.514863","url":null,"abstract":"Over a decade ago, V. Schoning introduced the concept of lowness into structural complexity theory. Since then a large body of results has been obtained classifying various complexity classes according to their lowness properties. In this paper we highlight some of the more recent advances on selected topics in the area. Among the lowness properties we consider are polynomial-size circuit complexity, membership comparability, approximability, selectivity, and cheatability. Furthermore, we review some of the recent results concerning lowness for counting classes.","PeriodicalId":318382,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Structure in Complexity Theory. Tenth Annual IEEE Conference","volume":"100 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":"123161122","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}