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Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 320, Issues 2-3, 14 June 2004, Pages 495-503
 
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The size of SPP

J.M.John M. HitchcockE-mail The Corresponding Author, 1

Department of Computer Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071-3315, USA

Received 4 July 2003; 
accepted 20 February 2004
Communicated by O. Watanabe 
Available online 12 March 2004.

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Abstract

Derandomization techniques are used to show that at least one of the following holds regarding the size of the counting complexity class SPP:

1. μp(SPP)=0.
2. PH subset of or equal to SPP.
In other words, SPP is small by being a negligible subset of exponential time or large by containing the entire polynomial-time hierarchy. This addresses an open problem about the complexity of the graph isomorphism problem: it is not weakly complete for exponential time unless PH is contained in SPP. It is also shown that the polynomial-time hierarchy is contained in SPPNP if NP does not have p-measure 0.

Author Keywords: Resource-bounded measure; SPP; Weak completeness

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