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COCO
2003
Springer
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Hardness vs. Randomness within Alternating Time
We study the complexity of building pseudorandom generators (PRGs) with logarithmic seed length from hard functions. We show that, starting from a function f : {0, 1}l → {0, 1} ...
Emanuele Viola
COCO
2003
Springer
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Extremal properties of polynomial threshold functions
In this paper we give new extremal bounds on polynomial threshold function (PTF) representations of Boolean functions. Our results include the following: • Almost every Boolean ...
Ryan O'Donnell, Rocco A. Servedio
COCO
2003
Springer
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Universal Languages and the Power of Diagonalization
We define and study strong diagonalization and compare it to weak diagonalization, implicit in [7]. Kozen’s result in [7] shows that virtually every separation can be recast as...
Alan Nash, Russell Impagliazzo, Jeffrey B. Remmel
COCO
2003
Springer
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The complexity of stochastic sequences
We review and slightly strengthen known results on the Kolmogorov complexity of prefixes of effectively random sequences. First, there are recursively random random sequences su...
Wolfgang Merkle
COCO
2003
Springer
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Disjoint NP-Pairs
We study the question of whether the class DisjNP of disjoint pairs (A, B) of NP-sets contains a complete pair. The question relates to the question of whether optimal proof system...
Christian Glaßer, Alan L. Selman, Samik Seng...
COCO
2003
Springer
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Proving SAT does not have Small Circuits with an Application to the Two
We show that if SAT does not have small circuits, then there must exist a small number of satisfiable formulas such that every small circuit fails to compute satisfiability corr...
Lance Fortnow, Aduri Pavan, Samik Sengupta
COCO
2003
Springer
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Bounded Nondeterminism and Alternation in Parameterized Complexity Theory
We give machine characterisations and logical descriptions of a number of parameterized complexity classes. The focus of our attention is the class W[P], which we characterise as ...
Yijia Chen, Jörg Flum, Martin Grohe
COCO
2003
Springer
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Near-Optimal Lower Bounds on the Multi-Party Communication Complexity of Set Disjointness
We study the communication complexity of the set disjointness problem in the general multi-party model. For t players, each holding a subset of a universe of size n, we establish ...
Amit Chakrabarti, Subhash Khot, Xiaodong Sun