A long-standing open problem dating back to the 1960s is whether there exists a search-to-decision reduction for the time-bounded Kolmogorov complexity problem - that is, the problem of determining whether the length of the shortest time-$t$ program generating a given string $x$ is at most $s$.

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Recently, Pasarkar, Papadimitriou, and Yannakakis (ITCS 2023) have introduced the new TFNP subclass called PLC that contains the class PPP; they also have proven that several search problems related to extremal combinatorial principles (e.g., Ramsey’s theorem and the Sunflower lemma) belong to PLC. This short paper shows that the class ... more >>>

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 >>>