Lower bounds of static lovász-schrijver calculus proofs for tseitin tautologies

  • Authors:
  • Arist Kojevnikov;Dmitry Itsykson

  • Affiliations:
  • St. Petersburg Dep. of Steklov Institute of Mathematics, St.Petersburg, Russia;St. Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg, Russia

  • Venue:
  • ICALP'06 Proceedings of the 33rd international conference on Automata, Languages and Programming - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We prove an exponential lower bound on the size of static Lovász-Schrijver calculus refutations of Tseitin tautologies. We use several techniques, namely, translating static LS+ proof into Positivstellensatz proof of Grigoriev et al., extracting a “good” expander out of a given graph by removing edges and vertices of Alekhnovich et al., and proving linear lower bound on the degree of Positivstellensatz proofs for Tseitin tautologies.