Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
436722 Theoretical Computer Science 2006 11 Pages PDF
Abstract

We give simple, self-contained proofs of the basic hardness results for the classes W[t] of the weft hierarchy. We extend these proofs to higher levels of the hierarchy and illuminate the distinctions among its classes. The anti-monotone collapse at W[1,s] and the normalization of weft-t formulas arise as by-products of the proofs.

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