Abstract für Paper

Structure in Average Case Complexity

Autor: Rainer Schuler and Christoph Karg
Extended abstract appears in ISAAC 1995
Abstract: In 1990 Schapire gave an equivalent characterization of Levin's notion of functions, that are polynomial on average. This characterization gives a very smooth translation from worst case complexity to average case complexity of the notions for time and space complexity. We prove tight space- and time-hierarchy theorems and discuss the structure of deterministic and nondeterministic average case complexity classes. In particular, we show for polynomial and exponential time-bounded classes that nondeterministic average case is equivalent to deterministic average case if this is true in worst case complexity. We consider tally encodings of randomized decision problems and show that there are tally randomized decision problems in average nondeterministic polynomial time which are not in average deterministic polynomial time if and only if average deterministic exponential time is different from average nondeterministic exponential time.

Kontaktadresse: chkarg@informatik.uni-ulm.de