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Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 63, Issue 3, March 1989, Pages 239-252
 
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On inefficient special cases of NP-complete problems*1

Ding-Zhu Du

Ronald V. Book

Institute of Applied Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, People's Republic of China Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA

Communicated by A. Salomaa 
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Abstract

Every intractable set A has a polynomial complexity core, a set H such that for any P-subset S of A or of Image , SH is finite. A complexity core H of A is proper if Hsubset of or equal toA. It is shown here that if P≠NP, then every currently known (i.e., either invertibly paddable or k-creative) NP-complete set A and its complement Image have proper polynomial complexity cores that are nonsparse and are accepted by deterministic machines in time 2cn for some constant c. Turning to the intractable class DImage =union or logical sumc>0DImage (2cn), it is shown that every set that is less-than-or-equals, slantpm-complete for DImage has an infinite proper polynomial complexity core that is nonsparse and recursive.

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