Computer Sciences Dept.

On the Structure of Sets in NP and Other Complexity Classes

Lawrence Landweber, Richard Lipton, Edward Robertson
1978

A simple technique is developed for manipulating the relative complexity of stes with respect to polynomial time reducibility. One application is the definition of a minimal pair (with respect to polynomial time reducibility) of sets in NP-P. The last section proves that the NP-complete are effectively enumerable while NP-P is not.

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