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TR05-083 | 24th July 2005 00:00

Disjoint NP-Pairs from Propositional Proof Systems

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TR05-083
Authors: Olaf Beyersdorff
Publication: 1st August 2005 17:39
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Abstract:

For a proof system P we introduce the complexity class DNPP(P)
of all disjoint NP-pairs for which the disjointness of the pair is
efficiently provable in the proof system P.
We exhibit structural properties of proof systems which make the
previously defined canonical NP-pairs of these proof systems hard or
complete for DNPP(P).
Moreover we demonstrate that non-equivalent proof systems can have
equivalent canonical pairs and that depending on the properties of the
proof systems different scenarios for DNPP(P) and the reductions between
the canonical pairs exist.



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