• DocumentCode
    3388713
  • Title

    Pseudorandom generators, measure theory, and natural proofs

  • Author

    Regan, Kenneth W. ; Sivakumar, D. ; Cai, Jin-Yi

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    23-25 Oct 1995
  • Firstpage
    26
  • Lastpage
    35
  • Abstract
    We prove that if strong pseudorandom number generators exist, then the class of languages that have polynomial-sized circuits (P/poly) is not measurable within exponential time, in terms of the resource-bounded measure theory of Lutz. We prove our result by showing that if P/poly has measure zero in exponential time, then there is a natural proof against P/poly, in the terminology of Razborov and Rudich (1994). We also provide a partial converse of this result
  • Keywords
    computational complexity; formal languages; random number generation; theorem proving; measure theory; natural proofs; partial converse; pseudorandom number generators; resource-bounded measure theory; Area measurement; Circuits; Complexity theory; Computer science; Natural languages; Polynomials; Size measurement; Terminology; Time measurement; Turing machines;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Foundations of Computer Science, 1995. Proceedings., 36th Annual Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Milwaukee, WI
  • ISSN
    0272-5428
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-7183-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SFCS.1995.492459
  • Filename
    492459