As a natural extension of the SAT problem, different proof systems for quantified Boolean formulas (QBF) have been proposed. Many of these extend a propositional system to handle universal quantifiers.
By formalising the construction of the QBF proof system from a propositional proof system, by the addition of the ... more >>>
We aim to understand inherent reasons for lower bounds for QBF proof systems and revisit and compare two previous approaches in this direction.
The first of these relates size lower bounds for strong QBF Frege systems to circuit lower bounds via strategy extraction (Beyersdorff & Pich, LICS'16). Here we ... more >>>