Abstract
Much structural work on NP-complete sets has exploited SAT's d-self-reducibility. We exploit the additional fact that SAT is a d-cylinder to show that NP-complete sets are p-superterse unless P=NP. In fact, every set that is NP-hard under polynomial-time n/sup o(1/)-tt reductions is p-superterse unless P=NP. In particular no p-selective set is NP-hard under polynomial-time n/sup o(1/)-tt reductions unless P=NP. In addition, no easily countable set is NP-hard under Turing reductions unless P=NP. Self-reducibility does not seem to suffice for our main result: in a relativized world, we construct a d-self-reducible set in NP-P that is polynomial-time 2-tt reducible to a p-selective set. >
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