On the Complexity of Resolution with Bounded Conjunctions

  • Authors:
  • Juan Luis Esteban;Nicola Galesi;Jochen Messner

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICALP '02 Proceedings of the 29th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We analyze size and space complexity of Res(k), a family of proof systems introduced by Kraj铆驴ek in [16] which extend Resolution by allowing disjunctions of conjunctions of up to k 驴 1 literals. We prove the following results: (1) The treelike Res(k) proof systems form a strict hierarchy with respect to proof size and also with respect to space. (2) Resolution polynomially simulates treelike Res(k), and is almost exponentially separated from treelike Res(k). (3) The space lower bounds known for Resolution also carry over to Res(k). We obtain almost optimal space lower bounds for PHPn, GTn, Random Formulas, CTn, and Tseitin Tautologies.