The Complexity of Read-Once Resolution

  • Authors:
  • Hans Kleine Büning;Xishun Zhao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Paderborn, 33095 Paderborn, Germany kbcsl@uni-paderborn.de;Institute of Logic and Cognition, Zhongshan University, 510275 Guangzhou, P.R. China hsdp08@zsu.edu.cn

  • Venue:
  • Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We investigate the complexity of deciding whether a propositional formula has a read-once resolution proof. We give a new and general proof of Iwama–Miynano's theorem which states that the problem whether a formula has a read-once resolution proof is iNP-complete. Moreover, we show for fixed ik⩾2 that the additional restriction that in each resolution step one of the parent clauses is a ik-clause preserves the iNP-completeness. If we demand that the formulas are minimal unsatisfiable and read-once refutable then the problem remains iNP-complete. For the subclasses iMU(ik) of minimal unsatisfiable formulas we present a pol-time algorithm deciding whether a iMU(ik)-formula has a read-once resolution proof. Furthermore, we show that the problems whether a formula contains a iMU(ik)-subformula or a read-once refutable iMU(ik)-subformula are iNP-complete.