Random CNF's are Hard for the Polynomial Calculus

  • Authors:
  • Eli Ben-Sasson;Russell Impagliazzo

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • FOCS '99 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We show a general reduction that derives lower bounds on degrees of polynomial calculus proofs of tautologies over any field of characteristic other than 2 from lower bounds for resolution proofs of a related set of linear equations modulo 2. We apply this to derive linear lower bounds on the degrees of PC proofs of randomly generated tautologies.