Polynomial reducibilities and upward diagonalizations

  • Authors:
  • Istvan Simon;John Gill

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • STOC '77 Proceedings of the ninth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 1977

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Abstract

An open question of [LLS] is whether polynomial time many-one reducibility ≤mP and polynomial time Turing reducibility ≤TP differ on NP. An affirmative answer to this question would yield P @@@@ NP as a corollary, but it is possible that P @@@@ NP even if the answer is negative. Ladner, Lynch, and Selman [LLS] conjecture that if P @@@@ NP then ≤mP and ≤TP differ on NP. One method that might prove helpful in settling this conjecture is to exhibit an efficient construction that builds from any nonpolynomial set A a set B such that A ≤TP B but A @@@@mP B. If such a construction were sufficiently efficient, then when applied to a set A in NP - P it would yield a set B in NP/