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The polynomial time reducibilities originated as a tool for carrying out intractability proofs by emulating undecidability proofs based on recursion-theoretic reducibilities. This chapter surveys a considerable body of work concerning the structure of the p-r-degrees, p-T-degrees, and p-m-degrees. The last section extends the discussion to additional reducibilities. The results presented here address local structure (minimal pairs, etc.), lattice embeddings, and the first-order theories of various polynomial time degree structures. Examples of proofs using effective finite extension arguments, the delayed diagonalization technique, and the iterated look-ahead technique are provided. The last three sections include descriptions of some significant open problems, and are followed by a substantial bibliography. For a review of this entire volume, see Zbl 0923.03001. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0923.03001].











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