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MajoritySAT is PP-complete
Statement
is PP-complete under polynomial-time many-one reductions.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: the declared-variable convention for formulas.
MajoritySAT uses the strict threshold , including its interpretation, by MajoritySAT.
PP is strict sign testing for GapP, by PP is strict sign testing for Gap-P.
Cook--Levin can preserve accepting paths exactly, by The Cook--Levin construction can be made parsimonious.
Proof
On a well-formed formula with declared variables, a probabilistic machine chooses the assignment bits uniformly and accepts exactly on a satisfying assignment. Its acceptance probability is , so [L1] gives membership in PP; for the unique random string is the empty assignment.
For hardness, normalize a PP machine to paths with , of them accepting. By [L3] obtain a formula with exactly satisfying assignments. Add uniquely forced variables until its declared count obeys , preserving its count. For let ; exactly assignments satisfy . With a fresh selector , put Then The formula and its declared list are produced in polynomial time.
Step 1.2 is a membership-preserving reduction from every PP language to MajoritySAT, and step 1.1 gives membership; hence MajoritySAT is PP-complete.
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Sources
- Arora and Barak, Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach (standard reference, not scraped)
- Lance Fortnow, Counting Complexity (standard reference, not scraped)