The Complexity of Decision Versus Search

A basic question about NP is whether or not search (the problem of finding a witness) reduces in polynomial time to decision ( the problem deciding whether there exists a witness). The fact that search does reduce to decision for SAT and other NP-complete problems (self-reducibility) is among the...

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Main Authors: Bellare, Mihir, Goldwasser, Shafi
Published: 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/149172

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