Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Lecture 22

In this lecture we covered "derandomization implies circuit lower bounds" topics. In particular, we saw:

Kannan's Theorem, Σ2 doesn't have fixed-polynomial size circuits.

The Babai-Fortnow-Lund Theorem, EXPP/polyEXP=MA, and its consequences: MA-EXP does not have polynomial size circuits, derandomizing MA to NP implies showing NEXP does not have polynomial size circuits.

Most of the Impagliazzo-Kabanets-Wigderson Theorem, NEXPP/polyNEXP=EXP (and indeed NEXP=MA), along with Kabanets's "easy witness method". The remainder will be proved next time.

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