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New relations and separations of conjectures about incompleteness in the finite domain

Khaniki, E ; Sharif University of Technology | 2021

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1017/jsl.2021.99
  3. Publisher: Cambridge University Press , 2021
  4. Abstract:
  5. In [20] Kraj´ıˇcek and Pudl´ak discovered connections between problems in computational complexity and the lengths of first-order proofs of finite consistency statements. Later Pudl´ak [25] studied more statements that connect provability with computational complexity and conjectured that they are true. All these conjectures are at least as strong as P ̸= NP [23, 25, 24]. One of the problems concerning these conjectures is to find out how tightly they are connected with statements about computational complexity classes. Results of this kind had been proved in [20, 22]. In this paper, we generalize and strengthen these results. Another question that we address concerns the dependence between these conjectures. We construct two oracles that enable us to answer questions about relativized separations asked in [25] and [19] (i.e., for the pairs of conjectures mentioned in the questions, we construct oracles such that one conjecture from the pair is true in the relativized world and the other is false and vice versa). We also show several new connections between the studied conjectures. In particular, we show that the relation between the finite reflection principle and proof systems for existentially quantified Boolean formulas is similar to the one for finite consistency statements and proof systems for non-quantified propositional tautologies. © 2021 Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved
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  7. Computational complexity ; First-order proofs ; Finite consistency statements ; Proof systems ; Finite reflection principles ; TFNP problems
  8. Source: Journal of Symbolic Logic ; November , 2021 ; 00224812 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-symbolic-logic/article/abs/new-relations-and-separations-of-conjectures-about-incompleteness-in-the-finite-domain/792A5B589DEEFD1E31EF31844BDB7866