Hierarchical unambiguity

  • Authors:
  • Holger Spakowski;Rahul Tripathi

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

  • Venue:
  • MFCS'06 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We develop techniques to investigate relativized hierarchical unambiguous computation. We apply our techniques to push forward some known constructs involving relativized unambiguity based complexity classes (UP and Promise- UP) to new constructs involving arbitrary levels of the relativized unambiguous polynomial hierarchy (UPH). Our techniques are developed on constraints imposed by hierarchical assembly of unambiguous nondeterministic polynomial-time Turing machines, and so our techniques differ substantially, in applicability and in nature, from standard techniques (such as the switching lemma [Hås87]), which are known to play roles in carrying out similar generalizations. Aside from achieving these generalizations, we resolve a question posed by Cai, Hemachandra, and Vyskoč [CHV93] on an issue related to nonadaptive Turing access to UP and adaptive smart Turing access to Promise-UP.