Using polynomial time self-reducibility structures, we characterize certain helping notions, show how the characterization provides the main tool for the proof of known relationships between decisional and functional NP-complete problems, and extend this relationships to the case of optimization NP-complete problems.
@article{urn:eudml:doc:43531, title = {Self-reducibility structures and solutions of NP problems.}, journal = {Revista Matem\'atica de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid}, volume = {2}, year = {1989}, pages = {175-184}, zbl = {0687.68018}, mrnumber = {MR1031693}, language = {en}, url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/urn:eudml:doc:43531} }
Balcázar Navarro, José L. Self-reducibility structures and solutions of NP problems.. Revista Matemática de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Tome 2 (1989) pp. 175-184. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/urn:eudml:doc:43531/