When Worlds Collide: Derandomization, Lower Bounds, and Kolmogorov Complexity

  • Authors:
  • Eric Allender

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • FST TCS '01 Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper has the following goals: - To survey some of the recent developments in the field of derandomization. - To introduce a new notion of time-bounded Kolmogorov complexity (KT), and show that it provides a useful tool for understanding advances in derandomization, and for putting various results in context. - To illustrate the usefulness of KT, by answering a question that has been posed in the literature, and - To pose some promising directions for future research.