Substitutions into propositional tautologies

  • Authors:
  • Jan Krajíček

  • Affiliations:
  • Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, CB3 OEH, UK

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We prove that there is a polynomial time substitution (y"1,...,y"n):=g(x"1,...,x"k) with k@?n such that whenever the substitution instance A(g(x"1,...,x"k)) of a 3DNF formula A(y"1,...,y"n) has a short resolution proof it follows that A(y"1,...,y"n) is a tautology. The qualification ''short'' depends on the parameters k and n.