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TR16-203 | 21st December 2016 15:28

Supercritical Space-Width Trade-offs for Resolution

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TR16-203
Authors: Christoph Berkholz, Jakob Nordström
Publication: 21st December 2016 17:24
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Abstract:

We show that there are CNF formulas which can be refuted in resolution
in both small space and small width, but for which any small-width
proof must have space exceeding by far the linear worst-case upper
bound. This significantly strengthens the space-width trade-offs in
[Ben-Sasson '09]}, and provides one more example of trade-offs in the
"supercritical" regime above worst case recently identified by
[Razborov '16]. We obtain our results by using Razborov's new hardness
condensation technique and combining it with the space lower bounds in
[Ben-Sasson and Nordstrom '08].



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