Unconditional Lower Bounds against Advice

Harry Buhrman, Lance Fortnow, Rahul Santhanam

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We show several unconditional lower bounds for exponential time classes
against polynomial time classes with advice, including:
\begin{enumerate}
\item For any constant c, \NEXP\P\NP[nc]nc
\item For any constant c, \MAEXP\MAnc
\item \BPEXP\BPPno(1)
\end{enumerate}

It was previously unknown even whether \NEXP\NPn001 .
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\io\NP, which provides evidence that this
is not possible with current techniques.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages11
JournalElectronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (ECCC)
Volume16
Publication statusPublished - 2009

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