Abstract
We study the shrinking and separation properties (two notions well-known in descriptive set theory) for and and show that under reasonable complexity-theoretic assumptions, both properties do not hold for and the shrinking property does not hold for . In particular we obtain the following results.
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and do not have the shrinking property, unless is finite. In general, and do not have the shrinking property, unless is finite. This solves an open question from [25].
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The separation property does not hold for , unless .
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The shrinking property does not hold for , unless there exist -hard disjoint -pairs (existence of such pairs would contradict a conjecture by Even, Selman, and Yacobi [6]).
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The shrinking property does not hold for , unless there exist complete disjoint -pairs.
Moreover, we prove that the assumption is too weak to refute the shrinking property for in a relativizable way. For this we construct an oracle relative to which , , and has the shrinking property. This solves an open question by Blass and Gurevich [2] who explicitly ask for such an oracle.
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Glaßer, C., Reitwießner, C., Selivanov, V. (2008). The Shrinking Property for NP and coNP. In: Beckmann, A., Dimitracopoulos, C., Löwe, B. (eds) Logic and Theory of Algorithms. CiE 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5028. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69407-6_25
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