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A relation between sets of natural numbers. We say that $A$ is many-one reducible to $B$, $A \le_{\mathrm{m}} B$, if there is a general recursive function $\phi$ such that $x \in A$ if and only if $\phi(x) \in B$. This defines a pre-order on sets of natural numbers, and the equivalence classes are $\mathrm{m}$-degrees; they refine the Turing degrees.

Many-one reducibility is an instance of a truth-table reducibility.

References

  • Nicholas Pippenger Theories of Computability Cambridge University Press (1997) ISBN 0-521-55380-6
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Many-one reducibility. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Many-one_reducibility&oldid=37575