Distributional Halting Problem (Version 2)



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Distributional Halting Problem (Version 2)

This version of halting problem is with a flat distribution.
DISTRIBUTIONAL HALTING PROBLEM (VERSION 2)

Instance. Binary strings , , and , where is a positive integer. The size of the instance is .

Question. Does accept within steps?

Distribution. Randomly select binary strings , , and with respect to the default uniform distribution. Hence, the probability distribution is proportional to , where , , and .
This version of the distributional halting problem was first shown to be average-case NP-complete by Gurevich [Gur91]. Randomized reductions are used to handle the ``flatness.'' The version presented is from [Wan96].



Jie Wang
Mon Feb 3 15:13:50 EST 1997