Completeness Proofs (Part II)



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Completeness Proofs (Part II)

 

A difficulty among completeness proofs for the average case complexity is that it is hard to maintain the domination property for probability distributions. In general, if the size of the output of a reduction is a linear growth of the size of its input, then it may damage the domination property. For example, if we were to reduce the halting problems to a problem in an effort to show that is complete, we would try to find a reduction such that . If the reduction transforms to such that has a parameter with for some and being an irreducible factor of , then cannot dominate with respect to . The only possibility left in this connection is for to satisfy . A dynamic binary coding scheme was introduced by Gurevich [Gur91] to meet this requirement, which will be used throughout this section.





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