Resource Bounded Measure and P Versus NP Problem-A Critical Study.

Date of Submission

December 2000

Date of Award

Winter 12-12-2001

Institute Name (Publisher)

Indian Statistical Institute

Document Type

Master's Dissertation

Degree Name

Master of Technology

Subject Name

Computer Science

Department

Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit (TSMU-Kolkata)

Supervisor

Sikdar, K. (TSMU-Kolkata; ISI)

Abstract (Summary of the Work)

This reports deals with the concept of resource-bounded measure that provides a quantative approach to deal with many questions of Structural Complexity Theory. Ia particular, we examine the consequences of the hypothesis that NP does not have p-measure 0 which is is a stronger hypothesis than that of NP ≠P.In the first chapter , we introduce the concept of resource-bounded measure and survey some basic results about it. We also give examples of classes with p-measure 0 or p-measure 1. In particular, (a) we give a sufficient condition for a class to have p-measure 0 in E and (b) we define , for each infinite language L € P, a class of languages XL that has p-measure 0. In the second chapter , we define a measure inside the class PSPACE. and survey some basic results about it. In the third chapter, we study nice properties like P-immunity and Incompressibility of languages in relation to resource bounded measure. Then we have made a small observation that if Bertman-Hartmanis conjecture is true then the class NPC has p-measure Oin E. Also we have shown that if Berman- Hartmanis conjecture holds and for any two language L1 and L2 € NPI we have L1ΔL2 € NPC then NP can have either measure 0 or it is non-measurable in E. In the fourth chapter , we present a notion of resource-bounded measure for P and other subexponential-time classes and examine its basic properties. In Chapter 5, we study the reasonableness and consequnces of the "hypethesis NP does not have p-measure 0".

Comments

ProQuest Collection ID: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:28843251

Control Number

ISI-DISS-2000-76

Creative Commons License

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DOI

http://dspace.isical.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/10263/6248

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