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2 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

   Relativizations of the $\mathcal{P} = ?\mathcal{NP}$ Question

   Baker, Gill and Solovay · SIAM Journal on Computing · 1975

   The paper studies versions of the P versus NP question in which machines can consult an oracle, and builds oracles that give opposite answers, as well as oracles for all consistent inclusion patterns.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors build one computable oracle set A where P and NP coincide, and another computable set B where they differ.“We construct a recursive set A such that $\mathcal{P}^A = \mathcal{NP}^A $. On the other hand, we construct a recursive set B such that $\mathcal{P}^B \ne \mathcal{NP}^B $.”

2. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

   Algebrization

   Aaronson and Wigderson · ACM Transactions on Computation Theory · 2009

   The paper introduces a third barrier to proving major complexity results, called algebrization, and shows that known arithmetization-based results get past ordinary relativization but still algebrize.

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   1. UncheckedAaronson and Wigderson show that most major open problems in complexity theory, including P versus NP, cannot be resolved by algebrizing proof techniques.“Second, we show that almost all of the major open problems---including P versus NP, P versus RP, and NEXP versus P/poly---will require non-algebrizing techniques.”