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标题：An Encoding Invariant Version of Polynomial Time Computable Distributions
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作者：Nikolay Vereshchagin
期刊名称：Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity
印刷版ISSN：1433-8092
出版年度：2010
卷号：2010
出版社：Universität Trier, Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Computer-Forschung
摘要：When we represent a decision problem,like CIRCUIT-SAT, as a language over the binary alphabet, we usually do not specify how to encode instances by binary strings. This relies on the empirical observation that the truth of a statement of the form ``CIRCUIT-SAT belongs to a complexity class C'' does not depend on the encoding, provided both the encoding and the class C are ``natural''. In this sense most of the Complexity theory is ``encoding invariant''. The notion of a polynomial time computable distribution from Average Case Complexity is one of the exceptions from this rule.It might happen that a distribution over some objects, like circuits,is polynomial time computable in one encoding and is not polynomial time computable in the other encoding. In this paper we suggest an encoding invariant generalization of a notion of a polynomial time computable distribution. The completeness proofs of known distributional problems, like Bounded Halting, are simpler for the new class than for polynomial time computable distributions. This paper has no new technical contributions. All the statements are proved using the known techniques.
关键词：average case complexity, completeness proofs, polynomial time computable distributions, Samplable distributions