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45th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS'04)
Hierarchy Theorems for Probabilistic Polynomial Time
Rome, Italy
October 17-October 19
ISBN: 0-7695-2228-9
Lance Fortnow, University of Chicago
Rahul Santhanam, University of Chicago

We show a hierarchy for probabilistic time with one bit of advice, specifically we show that for all real numbers 1 ≤ α < β, BPTIME(n^(α)/1 ⊊ BPTIME(n^(β)/1. This result builds on and improves an earlier hierarchy of Barak using 0(log log n) bits of advice.

We also show that for any constant d > 0, there is a language L computable on average in BPP but not on average in BPTIME(n^(d)).

We build on Barak's techniques by using a different translation argument and by a careful application of the fact that there is a PSPACE-complete problem L such that worst-case probablistic algorithms for L take only slightly more time thane average-case algorithms.

Citation:
Lance Fortnow, Rahul Santhanam, "Hierarchy Theorems for Probabilistic Polynomial Time," focs, pp.316-324, 45th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS'04), 2004
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