On Boolean Lowness and Boolean Highness

نویسندگان

  • Steffen Reith
  • Klaus W. Wagner
چکیده

The concepts of lowness and highness originate from recursion theory and were introduced into the complexity theory by Sch. oning (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 211, Springer, Berlin, 1985). Informally, a set is low (high resp.) for a relativizable class K of languages if it does not add (adds maximal resp.) power to K when used as an oracle. In this paper, we introduce the notions of boolean lowness and boolean highness. Informally, a set is boolean low (boolean high resp.) for a class K of languages if it does not add (adds maximal resp.) power to K when combined with K by boolean operations. We prove properties of boolean lowness and boolean highness which show a lot of similarities with the notions of lowness and highness. Using Kadin’s technique of hard strings (see Kadin, SIAM J. Comput 17(6) (1988) 1263–1282; Wagner, Number-of-query hierachies, TR 158, University of Augsburg, 1987; Chang and Kadin SIAM J. Comput. 25(2) (1996) 340; Beigel et al. Math. Systems Theory 26 (1993) 293–310) we show that the sets which are boolean low for the classes of the boolean hierarchy are low for the boolean closure of p 2 . Furthermore, we prove a result on boolean lowness which has as a corollary the best known result (see Beigel, (1993); in fact even a bit better) on the connection of the collapses of the boolean hierarchy and the polynomial-time hierarchy if BH = NP(k) then PH = p 2 (k − 1)⊕ NP(k). c © 2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Theor. Comput. Sci.

دوره 261  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1998