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Disjoint NP-Pairs
Aarhus, Denmark July 07-July 10
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CCC.2003.121443018th Annual IEEE Conference on Comput ...
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Christian Gla?er, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260
Alan L. Selman, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260
Samik Sengupta, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260
Liyu Zhang, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260

We study the question of whether the class DisNP of disjoint pairs (A,B) of NP-sets contains a complete pair. The question relates to the question of whether optimal proof systems exist, and we relate it to the previously studied question of whether there exists a disjoint pair of NP-sets that is NP-hard. We show under reasonable hypotheses that nonsymmetric disjoint NP-pairs exist, which provides additional evidence for the existence of P-inseparable disjoint NP-pairs.

We construct an oracle relative to which the class of disjoint NP-pairs does not have a complete pair, an oracle relative to which optimal proof systems exist, hence complete pairs exist, but no pair is NP-hard, and an oracle relative to which complete pairs exist, but optimal proof systems do not exist.

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Christian Gla?er, Alan L. Selman, Samik Sengupta, Liyu Zhang, "Disjoint NP-Pairs," ccc, pp.313, 18th Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC'03), 2003
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