Combining Self-reducibility and Partial Information Algorithms

A partial information algorithm for a language A computes, for some fixed m, for input words x1, . . . , xm a set of bitstrings containing χA(x1, . . . , xm). E.g., p-selective, approximable, and easily countable languages are defined by the existence of polynomial-time partial information algorithms of specific type. Self-reducible languages, for different types of self-reductions, form subclasses of PSPACE. For a self-reducible language A, the existence of a partial information algorithm sometimes helps to place A into some subclass of PSPACE. The most prominent known result in this respect is: P-selective languages which are self-reducible are in P [9]. Closely related is the fact that the existence of a partial information algorithm for A simplifies the type of reductions or self-reductions to A. The most prominent known result in this respect is: Turing reductions to easily countable languages simplify to truth-table reductions [8]. We prove new results of this type. We show...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: MFCS
• Authors: André Hernich, Arfst Nickelsen
• Keywords: Countable Languages, MFCS 2005, Partial Information Algorithm, Self-reducible Language