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TR03-063 | 2nd July 2003 00:00

The Size of SPP

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TR03-063
Authors: John Hitchcock
Publication: 8th September 2003 19:54
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Abstract:

Derandomization techniques are used to show that at least one of the
following holds regarding the size of the counting complexity class
SPP.
1. SPP has p-measure 0.
2. PH is contained in SPP.
In other words, SPP is small by being a negligible subset of
exponential time or large by containing the entire polynomial-time
hierarchy. This addresses an open problem about the complexity of the
graph isomorphism problem: it is not weakly complete for exponential
time unless PH is contained in SPP. It is also shown that the
polynomial-time hierarchy is contained in SPP^NP if NP does not
have p-measure 0.



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