Properties of uniformly hard languages

  • Authors:
  • Piotr Faliszewski;Janusz Jarosz

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY and Institute of Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland;Institute of Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Uniformly hard languages are languages that do not contain too many easy instances. We show that certain problems are uniformly hard, prove the uniformly hard analog of the Time Hierarchy Theorem, and explore the properties of the polynomial hierarchy with respect to uniform hardness.