We describe CNFs in n variables which, over a range of parameters, have small resolution refutations but are such that any small refutation must have height larger than n (even exponential in n), where the height of a refutation is the length of the longest path in it. This is ... more >>>

Following Ergun et al. (JCSS 2000), we consider testing group properties and focus on the problem of testing whether a binary operation is a group operation.
That is, given a finite set $S$ and oracle access to a function $f:S\times S \to S$, we wish to distinguish the case that ... more >>>

The existence of "unstructured" hard languages in $\text{NP}\cap\text{coNP}$ is an intriguing open question. Bennett and Gill (SICOMP, 1981) asked whether $\text{P}$ is separated from $\text{NP}\cap\text{coNP}$ relative to a random oracle, a question that remained open ever since. While a hard language in $\text{NP}\cap\text{coNP}$ can be constructed in a black-box way ... more >>>