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An Oracle with no $\mathrm{UP}$-Complete Sets, but $\mathrm{NP}=\mathrm{PSPACE}$

Computational Complexity 2024-05-01 v1

Abstract

We construct an oracle relative to which NP=PSPACE\mathrm{NP} = \mathrm{PSPACE}, but UP\mathrm{UP} has no many-one complete sets. This combines the properties of an oracle by Hartmanis and Hemachandra [HH88] and one by Ogiwara and Hemachandra [OH93]. The oracle provides new separations of classical conjectures on optimal proof systems and complete sets in promise classes. This answers several questions by Pudl\'ak [Pud17], e.g., the implications UPCONN\mathsf{UP} \Longrightarrow \mathsf{CON}^{\mathsf{N}} and SATTFNP\mathsf{SAT} \Longrightarrow \mathsf{TFNP} are false relative to our oracle. Moreover, the oracle demonstrates that, in principle, it is possible that TFNP\mathrm{TFNP}-complete problems exist, while at the same time SAT\mathrm{SAT} has no p-optimal proof systems.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2404.19104,
  title  = {An Oracle with no $\mathrm{UP}$-Complete Sets, but $\mathrm{NP}=\mathrm{PSPACE}$},
  author = {David Dingel and Fabian Egidy and Christian Glaßer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.19104},
  year   = {2024}
}
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