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by cdavidcash 5789 days ago
Ah, that is not how those "barriers" work. Roughly, the relativization barrier goes like this: Say you have a proof that P!=NP. Does it also prove that P^A != NP^A for any oracle A? If it does, then the proof is flawed, because there <i>does</i> exist an oracle A such that P^A = NP^A!

Such proofs are said to relativize -- i.e., they are still valid relative to any oracle.

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Ah, thanks for explaining!