α -Decisiveness In Simple Games
✍ Scribed by Francesc Carreras
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 113 KB
- Volume
- 56
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-5833
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We thank Robin Forman for two useful proofs, Peter H. Aranson, Howard Rosenthal, Kriss A. Sjoblom, and anonymous referees for thoughtful comments, DouglasH. Blair for calling Greenberg's (1979) important results to our attention, and Patricia Cook for typing the manuscript.
It is well known that probabilistic boolean decision trees cannot be much more powerful than deterministic ones (N. Nisan, SIAM J. Comput. 20, No. 6 (1991), 999 1007). Motivated by a question if randomization can significantly speed up a nondeterministic computation via a boolean decision tree, we a