An Improved Time-Space Lower Bound for Tautologies

  • Authors:
  • Scott Diehl;Dieter Melkebeek;Ryan Williams

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, Siena College, Loudonville 12211;Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706;School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 08540

  • Venue:
  • COCOON '09 Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We show that for all reals c and d such that c 2 d e 0 such that tautologies of length n cannot be decided by both a nondeterministic algorithm that runs in time n c , and a nondeterministic algorithm that runs in time n d and space n e . In particular, for all $d there exists an e 0 such that tautologies cannot be decided by a nondeterministic algorithm that runs in time n d and space n e .