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  • 标题:A Gap in Average Proof Complexity
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  • 作者:Eli Ben-Sasson, Yonatan Bilu
  • 期刊名称:Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity
  • 印刷版ISSN:1433-8092
  • 出版年度:2002
  • 卷号:2002
  • 出版社:Universität Trier, Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Computer-Forschung
  • 摘要:We present the first example of a natural distribution on instances of an NP-complete problem, with the following properties. With high probability a random formula from this distribution (a) is unsatisfiable, (b) has a short proof that can be found easily, and (c) does not have a short (general) resolution proof. This happens already for a very low clause/variable density ratio of = log n ( n is the number of variables). This is the first example of such a natural distribution for which general resolution proofs are not the best way for proving unsatisfiability of random instances. Our result gives hope that efficient proof methods might be found for random 3-CNFs with small clause density (significantly less than n ).
  • 关键词:Proof Complexity , Resolution
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