id: 06086213 dt: a an: 06086213 au: Allender, Eric; Buhrman, Harry; Friedman, Luke; Loff, Bruno ti: Reductions to the set of random strings: the resource-bounded case. so: Rovan, Branislav (ed.) et al., Mathematical foundations of computer science 2012. 37th international symposium, MFCS 2012, Bratislava, Slovakia, August 27‒31, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-32588-5/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7464, 88-99 (2012). py: 2012 pu: Berlin: Springer la: EN cc: ut: ci: li: doi:10.1007/978-3-642-32589-2_11 ab: Summary: This paper is motivated by a conjecture [1,5] that BPP can be characterized in terms of polynomial-time nonadaptive reductions to the set of Kolmogorov-random strings. In this paper we show that an approach laid out in [5] to settle this conjecture cannot succeed without significant alteration, but that it does bear fruit if we consider time-bounded Kolmogorov complexity instead. We show that if a set $A$ is reducible in polynomial time to the set of time-$t$-bounded Kolmogorov-random strings (for all large enough time bounds $t)$, then $A$ is in P/poly, and that if in addition such a reduction exists for any universal Turing machine one uses in the definition of Kolmogorov complexity, then $A$ is in PSPACE. rv: