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"path": "/abs/2602.23809v1",
"publishedAt": "2026-03-02T01:00:00.000Z",
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"textContent": "**Authors:** Pavel Hubáček\n\nWe establish that adaptive collision-finding queries are strictly more powerful than non-adaptive ones by proving that the complexity class PWPP (Polynomial Weak Pigeonhole Principle) is not closed under adaptive Turing reductions relative to a random oracle. Previously, PWPP was known to be closed under non-adaptive Turing reductions (Jeřábek 2016). We demonstrate this black-box separation by introducing the NESTED-COLLISION problem, a natural collision-finding problem defined on a pair of shrinking functions. We show that while this problem is solvable via two adaptive calls to a PWPP oracle, its random instances cannot be solved via a black-box non-adaptive reduction to the canonical PWPP-complete problem COLLISION.",
"title": "Black-Box PWPP Is Not Turing-Closed"
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