In this paper we separate many-one reducibility from truth-table reducibility for distributional problems in DistNP under the hypothesis that P not= NP. As a first example we consider the 3-Satisfiability problem (3SAT) with two different distributions on 3CNF formulas. We show that 3SAT using a version of the standard distribution is truth-table reducible but not many-one reducible to 3SAT using a less redundant distribution unless P = NP.
We extend this separation result and define a distributional complexity class C with the following properties: