On reductions of NP sets to sparse sets

  • Authors:
  • Steven Homer;Luc Longpré

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer and System Sciences
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

Ogiwara and Watanabe showed that if SAT is bounded truth-table reducible to a sparse set, then P = NP. In this paper we simplify their proof, strengthen the result and use it to obtain several new results. Among the new results are the following:*Applications of the main theorem to log-truth-table and log-Turing reductions of NP sets to sparse sets. One typical example is that if SAT is log-truth-table reducible to a sparse set then NP is contained in DTIME (2^O^(^l^o^g^^^2^n^)). *Generalizations of the main theorem which yields results similar to the main result at arbitrary levels of the polynomial hierarchy and which extend as well to strong nondeterministic reductions. *The construction of an oracle relative to which P NP but there are NP-complete sets which are f(n)-tt-reducible to a tally set, for any f(n) @e @w(log n). This implies that, up to relativization, some of our results are optimal.