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The complexity of promise problems

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Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 1982)

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A “promise problem” is a formulation of a partial decision problem. Complexity issues about promise problems arise from Even and Yacobi's work in public-key cryptography

This paper was written while the author visited the Computer Science Department, Technion, Haifa, Israel, with funds provided by the United States-Israel Educational Foundation (Fulbright Award). This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant MCS77-23493 A02.

Part of this research was done while the author visited the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Dept., University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, U.S.A.

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Selman, A.L., Yacobi, Y. (1982). The complexity of promise problems. In: Nielsen, M., Schmidt, E.M. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 1982. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 140. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0012795

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