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The Complexity of the Kth Largest Subset Problem and Related Problems

Computational Complexity 2015-10-01 v2

Abstract

We show that the Kth largest subset problem and the Kth largest m-tuple problem are in PP and hard for PP under polynomial-time Turing reductions. Several problems from the literature were previously shown NP-hard via reductions from those two problems, and by our main result they become PP-hard as well. We also provide complementary PP-upper bounds for some of them.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1501.06729,
  title  = {The Complexity of the Kth Largest Subset Problem and Related Problems},
  author = {Christoph Haase and Stefan Kiefer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.06729},
  year   = {2015}
}
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