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TR13-027 | 29th January 2013
Luke Friedman

A Framework for Proving Proof Complexity Lower Bounds on Random CNFs Using Encoding Techniques

Propositional proof complexity is an area of complexity theory that addresses the question of whether the class NP is closed under complement, and also provides a theoretical framework for studying practical applications such as SAT solving.
Some of the most well-studied contradictions are random $k$-CNF formulas where each clause of ... more >>>


TR13-018 | 29th January 2013
Luke Friedman, Yixin Xu

Exponential Lower Bounds for Refuting Random Formulas Using Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams

A propositional proof system based on ordered binary decision diagrams (OBDDs) was introduced by Atserias et al. Krajicek proved exponential lower bounds for a strong variant of this system using feasible interpolation, and Tveretina et al. proved exponential lower bounds for restricted versions of this system for refuting formulas derived ... more >>>


TR12-054 | 2nd May 2012
Eric Allender, Harry Buhrman, Luke Friedman, Bruno Loff

Reductions to the set of random strings:the resource-bounded case

Revisions: 1

This paper is motivated by a conjecture that BPP can be characterized in terms of polynomial-time nonadaptive reductions to the set of Kolmogorov-random strings. In this paper we show that an approach laid out by [Allender et al] to settle this conjecture cannot succeed without significant alteration, but that it ... more >>>


TR12-028 | 30th March 2012
Eric Allender, George Davie, Luke Friedman, Samuel Hopkins, Iddo Tzameret

Kolmogorov Complexity, Circuits, and the Strength of Formal Theories of Arithmetic

Revisions: 1

Can complexity classes be characterized in terms of efficient reducibility to the (undecidable) set of Kolmogorov-random strings? Although this might seem improbable, a series of papers has recently provided evidence that this may be the case. In particular, it is known that there is a class of problems $C$ defined ... more >>>


TR10-139 | 17th September 2010
Eric Allender, Luke Friedman, William Gasarch

Limits on the Computational Power of Random Strings

Revisions: 1

Let C(x) and K(x) denote plain and prefix Kolmogorov complexity, respectively, and let R_C and R_K denote the sets of strings that are ``random'' according to these measures; both R_K and R_C are undecidable. Earlier work has shown that every set in NEXP is in NP relative to both R_K ... more >>>


TR10-138 | 17th September 2010
Eric Allender, Luke Friedman, William Gasarch

Exposition of the Muchnik-Positselsky Construction of a Prefix Free Entropy Function that is not Complete under Truth-Table Reductions

In this paper we give an exposition of a theorem by Muchnik and Positselsky, showing that there is a universal prefix Turing machine U, with the property that there is no truth-table reduction from the halting problem to the set {(x,i) : there is a description d of length at ... more >>>




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