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Diagonalisation methods in a polynomial setting. (English) Zbl 0611.68019

Structure in complexity theory, Proc. Conf., Berkeley/Calif. 1986, Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 223, 330-346 (1986).
[For the entire collection see Zbl 0591.00015.]
In the present paper an overview is presented of diagonalisation methods which have been used for the construction of oracle sets relative to which complexity classes in the P-Time Hierarchy are separated structurally. A comparison of the methods is made on the basis of inherent properties. A characterisation of these properties leads to a first attempt for a taxonomy for these diagonalisation methods.

MSC:

68Q25 Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity

Citations:

Zbl 0591.00015