Resolution lower bounds for the weak pigeonhole principle

  • Authors:
  • Ran Raz

  • Affiliations:
  • Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We prove that any Resolution proof for the weak pigeonhole principle, with n holes and any number of pigeons, is of length Ω(2nε), (for some global constant ε 0). One corollary is that a certain propositional formulation of the statement NP ⊄ P/poly does not have short Resolution proofs.