Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Komplexität und Kryptografie

New Lowness Results for ZPP(NP) and other Complexity Classes

Vikraman Arvind and Johannes Köbler

Abstract: We show the following new lowness results for the probabilistic class ZPP^NP.

  • The class AM \cap coAM is low for ZPP^NP. As a consequence it follows that Graph Isomorphism and several group-theoretic problems known to be in AM \cap coAM are low for ZPP^NP.
  • The class IP[P/poly], consisting of sets that have interactive proof systems with honest provers in P/poly, is also low for ZPP^NP.
We consider lowness properties of nonuniform function classes, namely, NPMV/poly, NPSV/poly, NPMV_t/poly, and NPSV_t/poly. Specifically, we show that
  • Sets whose characteristic functions are in NPSV/poly and that have program checkers (in the sense of Blum and Kannan) are low for AM and ZPP^NP.
  • Sets whose characteristic functions are in NPMV_t/poly are low for \Sigma_2^p.

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