Classes of representable disjoint NP-pairs

  • Authors:
  • Olaf Beyersdorff

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

For a propositional proof system P we introduce the complexity class DNPP(P) of all disjoint NP-pairs for which the disjointness of the pair is efficiently provable in the proof system P. We exhibit structural properties of proof systems which make canonical NP-pairs associated with these proof systems hard or complete for DNPP(P). Moreover, we demonstrate that non-equivalent proof systems can have equivalent canonical pairs and that depending on the properties of the proof systems different scenarios for DNPP(P) and the reductions between the canonical pairs exist.