Uniform Generation of NP-Witnesses Using an NP-Oracle

نویسندگان

  • Mihir Bellare
  • Oded Goldreich
  • Erez Petrank
چکیده

Uniform Generation of NP-witnesses using an NP-oracle Mihir Bellare Oded Goldreichy Erez Petrankz May 1998 Abstract A Uniform Generation procedure for NP is an algorithm which given any input in a xed NP-language, outputs a uniformly distributed NP-witness for membership of the input in the language. We present a Uniform Generation procedure for NP that runs in probabilistic polynomial-time with an NP-oracle. This improves upon results of Jerrum, Valiant and Vazirani, which either require a P2 oracle or obtain only almost uniform generation. Our procedure utilizes ideas originating in the works of Sipser, Stockmeyer, and Jerrum, Valiant and Vazirani.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Inf. Comput.

دوره 163  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1998