On p-optimal proof systems and logics for PTIME

  • Authors:
  • Yijia Chen;Jörg Flum

  • Affiliations:
  • Shanghai Jiaotong University, China;Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICALP'10 Proceedings of the 37th international colloquium conference on Automata, languages and programming: Part II
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We prove that TAUT has a p-optimal proof system if and only if a logic related to least fixed-point logic captures polynomial time on all finite structures. Furthermore, we show that TAUT has no effective p-optimal proof system if NTIME(hO(1)) ⊈ DTIME(hO(log h)) for every time constructible and increasing function h.