Common presentations of the NP-completeness of SAT suffer
from two drawbacks which hinder the scope of this
flagship result. First, they do not apply to machines
equipped with random-access memory, also known as
direct-access memory, even though this feature is
critical in basic algorithms. Second, they incur a
quadratic blow-up ... more >>>

Ramsey Theorem is a cornerstone of combinatorics and logic. In its
simplest formulation it says that there is a function $r$ such that
any simple graph with $r(k,s)$ vertices contains either a clique of
size $k$ or an independent set of size $s$. We study the complexity
of proving upper ... more >>>

We present an iterative approach to constructing pseudorandom generators, based on the repeated application of mild pseudorandom restrictions. We use this template to construct pseudorandom generators for combinatorial rectangles and read-once CNFs and a hitting set generator for width-3 branching programs, all of which achieve near optimal seed-length even in ... more >>>