Abstract
Assuming that k≥2 and Δ P k does not have p-measure 0, it is shown that BP · Δ P k =Δ P k . This implies that the following conditions hold if Δ P2 does not have p-measure 0.
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AM ∩ co-AM is low for Δ P2 . (Thus BPP and the graph isomorphism problem are low for Δ> P2 .)
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If Δ P2 ≠ PH, then NP does not have polynomial-size circuits.
This research was supported in part by National Science Foundation Grant CCR-9157382, with matching funds from Rockwell International, Microware Systems Corporation, and Amoco Foundation.
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Lutz, J.H. (1996). Observations on measure and lowness for Δ P2 . In: Puech, C., Reischuk, R. (eds) STACS 96. STACS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1046. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60922-9_8
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