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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2016.19
New Non-Uniform Lower Bounds for Uniform Classes

Authors: Lance Fortnow and Rahul Santhanam

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 50, 31st Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC 2016)

Abstract
We strengthen the nondeterministic hierarchy theorem for non-deterministic polynomial time to show that the lower bound holds against sub-linear advice. More formally, we show that for any constants d and d' such that 1 <= d < d', and for any time-constructible bound t=o(n^d), there is a language in NTIME(n^d) which is not in NTIME(t)/n^{1/d'}. The best known earlier separation of Fortnow, Santhanam and Trevisan could only handle o(log(n)) bits of advice in the lower bound, and was not tight with respect to the time bounds. We generalize our hierarchy theorem to work for other syntactic complexity measures between polynomial time and polynomial space, including alternating polynomial time with any fixed number of alternations. We also use our technique to derive an almost-everywhere hierarchy theorem for non-deterministic classes which use a sub-linear amount of non-determinism, i.e., the lower bound holds on all but finitely many input lengths rather than just on infinitely many. As one application of our main result, we derive a new lower bound for NP against NP-uniform non-deterministic circuits of size O(n^k) for any fixed k. This result is a significant strengthening of a result of Kannan, which states that not all of NP can be solved with P-uniform circuits of size O(n^k) for any fixed k. As another application, we show strong non-uniform lower bounds for the complexity class RE of languages decidable in randomized linear exponential time with one sided error.
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Lance Fortnow and Rahul Santhanam. New Non-Uniform Lower Bounds for Uniform Classes. In 31st Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 50, pp. 19:1-19:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{fortnow_et_al:LIPIcs.CCC.2016.19,
  author =	{Fortnow, Lance and Santhanam, Rahul},
  title =	{{New Non-Uniform Lower Bounds for Uniform Classes}},
  booktitle =	{31st Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC 2016)},
  pages =	{19:1--19:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-008-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{50},
  editor =	{Raz, Ran},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2016.19},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-58503},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2016.19},
  annote =	{Keywords: Computational complexity, nondeterminism, nonuniform complexity}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2010.2471
Inseparability and Strong Hypotheses for Disjoint NP Pairs

Authors: Lance Fortnow, Jack H. Lutz, and Elvira Mayordomo

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 5, 27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (2010)

Abstract
This paper investigates the existence of inseparable disjoint pairs of NP languages and related strong hypotheses in computational complexity. Our main theorem says that, if NP does not have measure 0 in EXP, then there exist disjoint pairs of NP languages that are P-inseparable, in fact TIME(2(n k))-inseparable. We also relate these conditions to strong hypotheses concerning randomness and genericity of disjoint pairs.
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Lance Fortnow, Jack H. Lutz, and Elvira Mayordomo. Inseparability and Strong Hypotheses for Disjoint NP Pairs. In 27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 5, pp. 395-404, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)

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@InProceedings{fortnow_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2010.2471,
  author =	{Fortnow, Lance and Lutz, Jack H. and Mayordomo, Elvira},
  title =	{{Inseparability and Strong Hypotheses for Disjoint NP Pairs}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science},
  pages =	{395--404},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-16-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{5},
  editor =	{Marion, Jean-Yves and Schwentick, Thomas},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2010.2471},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-24711},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2010.2471},
  annote =	{Keywords: Computational Complexity, Disjoint NP-pairs, Resource-Bounded Measure, Genericity}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.09421.1
09421 Abstracts Collection – Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity

Authors: Manindra Agrawal, Lance Fortnow, Thomas Thierauf, and Christopher Umans

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 9421, Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity (2010)

Abstract
From 11.10. to 16.10.2009, the Dagstuhl Seminar 09421 ``Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity '' was held in Schloss Dagstuhl~--~Leibniz Center for Informatics. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available.
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Manindra Agrawal, Lance Fortnow, Thomas Thierauf, and Christopher Umans. 09421 Abstracts Collection – Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity. In Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 9421, pp. 1-22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)

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@InProceedings{agrawal_et_al:DagSemProc.09421.1,
  author =	{Agrawal, Manindra and Fortnow, Lance and Thierauf, Thomas and Umans, Christopher},
  title =	{{09421 Abstracts Collection – Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity}},
  booktitle =	{Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity},
  pages =	{1--22},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{9421},
  editor =	{Manindra Agrawal and Lance Fortnow and Thomas Thierauf and Christopher Umans},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.09421.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-24181},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.09421.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Computational Complexity, Algebra}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.09421.2
09421 Executive Summary – Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity

Authors: Manindra Agrawal, Lance Fortnow, Thomas Thierauf, and Christopher Umans

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 9421, Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity (2010)

Abstract
The seminar brought together more than 50 researchers covering a wide spectrum of complexity theory. The focus on algebraic methods showed once again the great importance of algebraic techniques for theoretical computer science. We had almost 30 talks, most of them about 40 minutes leaving ample room for discussions. We also had a much appreciated open problem session. The talks ranged over a broad assortment of subjects with the underlying theme of using algebraic techniques. It was very fruitful and has hopefully initiated new directions in research. Several participants specifically mentioned that they appreciated the particular focus on a common class of techniques (rather than end results) as a unifying theme of the workshop. We look forward to our next meeting!
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Manindra Agrawal, Lance Fortnow, Thomas Thierauf, and Christopher Umans. 09421 Executive Summary – Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity. In Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 9421, pp. 1-4, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)

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@InProceedings{agrawal_et_al:DagSemProc.09421.2,
  author =	{Agrawal, Manindra and Fortnow, Lance and Thierauf, Thomas and Umans, Christopher},
  title =	{{09421 Executive Summary – Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity}},
  booktitle =	{Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity},
  pages =	{1--4},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{9421},
  editor =	{Manindra Agrawal and Lance Fortnow and Thomas Thierauf and Christopher Umans},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.09421.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-24100},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.09421.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Computational Complexity, Algebra}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.09421.8
Unconditional Lower Bounds against Advice

Authors: Harry Buhrman, Lance Fortnow, and Rahul Santhanam

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 9421, Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity (2010)

Abstract
We show several unconditional lower bounds for exponential time classes against polynomial time classes with advice, including: (1) For any constant c, NEXP not in P^{NP[n^c]} (2) For any constant c, MAEXP not in MA/n^c (3) BPEXP not in BPP/n^{o(1)}. It was previously unknown even whether NEXP in NP/n^{0.01}. For the probabilistic classes, no lower bounds for uniform exponential time against advice were known before. We also consider the question of whether these lower bounds can be made to work on almost all input lengths rather than on infinitely many. We give an oracle relative to which NEXP in i.o.NP, which provides evidence that this is not possible with current techniques.
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Harry Buhrman, Lance Fortnow, and Rahul Santhanam. Unconditional Lower Bounds against Advice. In Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 9421, pp. 1-11, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)

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@InProceedings{buhrman_et_al:DagSemProc.09421.8,
  author =	{Buhrman, Harry and Fortnow, Lance and Santhanam, Rahul},
  title =	{{Unconditional Lower Bounds against Advice}},
  booktitle =	{Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity},
  pages =	{1--11},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{9421},
  editor =	{Manindra Agrawal and Lance Fortnow and Thomas Thierauf and Christopher Umans},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.09421.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-24112},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.09421.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: Advice, derandomization, diagonalization, lower bounds, semantic classes}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.07411.1
07411 Abstracts Collection – Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity

Authors: Manindra Agrawal, Harry Buhrman, Lance Fortnow, and Thomas Thierauf

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 7411, Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity (2008)

Abstract
From 07.10. to 12.10., the Dagstuhl Seminar 07411 ``Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity'' was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available.
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Manindra Agrawal, Harry Buhrman, Lance Fortnow, and Thomas Thierauf. 07411 Abstracts Collection – Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity. In Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 7411, pp. 1-13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2008)

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@InProceedings{agrawal_et_al:DagSemProc.07411.1,
  author =	{Agrawal, Manindra and Buhrman, Harry and Fortnow, Lance and Thierauf, Thomas},
  title =	{{07411 Abstracts Collection – Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity}},
  booktitle =	{Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity},
  pages =	{1--13},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2008},
  volume =	{7411},
  editor =	{Manindra Agrawal and Harry Buhrman and Lance Fortnow and Thomas Thierauf},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.07411.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-13072},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.07411.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Computational complexity, algebra, quantum computing, (de-) randomization}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.07411.2
07411 Executive Summary – Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity

Authors: Manindra Agrawal, Harry Buhrman, Lance Fortnow, and Thomas Thierauf

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 7411, Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity (2008)

Abstract
The seminar brought together almost 50 researchers covering a wide spectrum of complexity theory. The focus on algebraic methods showed once again the great importance of algebraic techniques for theoretical computer science. We had almost 30 talks of length between 15 and 45 minutes. This left enough room for discussions. We had an open problem session that was very much appreciated.
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Manindra Agrawal, Harry Buhrman, Lance Fortnow, and Thomas Thierauf. 07411 Executive Summary – Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity. In Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 7411, pp. 1-3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2008)

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@InProceedings{agrawal_et_al:DagSemProc.07411.2,
  author =	{Agrawal, Manindra and Buhrman, Harry and Fortnow, Lance and Thierauf, Thomas},
  title =	{{07411 Executive Summary – Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity}},
  booktitle =	{Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity},
  pages =	{1--3},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2008},
  volume =	{7411},
  editor =	{Manindra Agrawal and Harry Buhrman and Lance Fortnow and Thomas Thierauf},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.07411.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-13061},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.07411.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Computational complexity, algebra, quantum computing, (de-) randomization}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.04421.1
04421 Abstracts Collection – Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity

Authors: Harry Buhrman, Lance Fortnow, and Thomas Thierauf

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 4421, Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity (2005)

Abstract
From 10.10.04 to 15.10.04, the Dagstuhl Seminar 04421 ``Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity'' was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available.
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Harry Buhrman, Lance Fortnow, and Thomas Thierauf. 04421 Abstracts Collection – Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity. In Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 4421, pp. 1-14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2005)

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@InProceedings{buhrman_et_al:DagSemProc.04421.1,
  author =	{Buhrman, Harry and Fortnow, Lance and Thierauf, Thomas},
  title =	{{04421 Abstracts Collection – Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity}},
  booktitle =	{Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity},
  pages =	{1--14},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2005},
  volume =	{4421},
  editor =	{Harry Buhrman and Lance Fortnow and Thomas Thierauf},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.04421.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-1162},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.04421.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Computational complexity , algebraic methods , quantum computations , lower bounds}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemRep.357
Algebraic Methods in Quantum and Classical Models of Computation (Dagstuhl Seminar 02421)

Authors: Harry Buhrman, Lance Fortnow, and Thomas Thierauf

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Reports. Dagstuhl Seminar Reports, Volume 1 (2021)

Abstract
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Harry Buhrman, Lance Fortnow, and Thomas Thierauf. Algebraic Methods in Quantum and Classical Models of Computation (Dagstuhl Seminar 02421). Dagstuhl Seminar Report 357, pp. 1-16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2003)

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@TechReport{buhrman_et_al:DagSemRep.357,
  author =	{Buhrman, Harry and Fortnow, Lance and Thierauf, Thomas},
  title =	{{Algebraic Methods in Quantum and Classical Models of Computation (Dagstuhl Seminar 02421)}},
  pages =	{1--16},
  ISSN =	{1619-0203},
  year =	{2003},
  type = 	{Dagstuhl Seminar Report},
  number =	{357},
  institution =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemRep.357},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-152377},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemRep.357},
}
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