On the Power of Positive Turing Reductions

dc.creatorHemaspaandra, Edith
dc.date1999-06-26
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:24:11Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:24:11Z
dc.descriptionIn the early 1980s, Selman's seminal work on positive Turing reductions showed that positive Turing reduction to NP yields no greater computational power than NP itself. Thus, positive Turing and Turing reducibility to NP differ sharply unless the polynomial hierarchy collapses. We show that the situation is quite different for DP, the next level of the boolean hierarchy. In particular, positive Turing reduction to DP already yields all (and only) sets Turing reducibility to NP. Thus, positive Turing and Turing reducibility to DP yield the same class. Additionally, we show that an even weaker class, P(NP[1]), can be substituted for DP in this context.
dc.description7 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/9906028
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/9906028
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/33227
dc.subjectComputational Complexity
dc.subjectF.1.3; F.1.2
dc.titleOn the Power of Positive Turing Reductions
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