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Circuit Lower Bounds Collapse Relativized Complexity Classes
Atlanta, Georgia May 04-May 06
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Richard Beigel, University of Illinois at Chicago
Alexis Maciel, Clarkson University
Since the publication of Furst, Saxe, and Sipser's seminal paper connecting AC0 with the polynomial hierarchy (Math. Systems Theory, 1984), it has been well known that circuit lower bounds allow you to construct oracles that separate complexity classes. We will show that similar circuit lower bounds allow you to construct oracles that collapse complexity classes. For example, based on Hastad's parity lower bound, we construct an oracle such that P = PH <> P = EXP.
Index Terms:
complexity theory, relativized computation, oracles, Booleand circuits
Citation:
Richard Beigel, Alexis Maciel, "Circuit Lower Bounds Collapse Relativized Complexity Classes," ccc, pp.222, 14th Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CoCo'99), 1999
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