Universität Ulm, Abteilung Theoretische Informatik

Aussagenlogische Beweise


Seminar im WS 2/3


Terminplanung

Themen

Als Einführung eignet sich [Bus96, Kapitel 1], einen Überblick bietet [CK02, Kapitel 5].

  1. Resolution (TSP)

  2. Cutting Planes

  3. Frege Systeme

Literatur

BP96
Paul Beame, Toniann Pitassi: Simplified and Improved Resolution Lower Bounds. FOCS 1996: 274-282.

BIW00
Eli Ben-Sasson, Russell Impagliazzo, Avi Wigderson: Near-Optimal Separation of Treelike and General Resolution. Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (ECCC) 7(5): (2000).

BW01
Eli Ben-Sasson, Avi Wigderson: Short proofs are narrow - resolution made simple. JACM 48(2): 149-169 (2001)

BEG97
Marķa Luisa Bonet, Juan Luis Esteban, Nicola Galesi, Jan Johansen. Exponential Separations between Restricted Resolution and Cutting Planes Proof Systems. 39th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS'98, pp 638-647.

BPR00
Marķa Luisa Bonet, Toniann Pitassi, and Ran Raz. On Interpolation and Automatization for Frege Systems.
SIAM J. Comput. 29(6), 1939-1967, 2000.

Bus96
Samuel R. Buss. Lectures on Proof Theory. Technical Report SOCS-96.1 School of Computer Sience McGill University. http://www.math.ucsd.edu/ sbuss/ResearchWeb/Barbados95Notes/

CK02
Peter Clote and Evangelos Kranakis. Boolean Functions and Computation Models. Springer-Verlag, 2002.

CR79
S. A. Cook and R. A. Reckhow.
The relative efficiency of propositional proof systems.
The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 44(1):36-50, 1979.

CCT87
Cook, W., Coullard, C.R., and Turán, G. (1987)
On the complexity of cutting plane proofs.
Discrete Applied Mathematics, 18:25-38.

Gal77
Zvi Galil: On the Complexity of Regular Resolution and the Davis-Putnam Procedure. TCS 4(1): 23-46 (1977)

Hak85
Armin Haken: The Intractability of Resolution. TCS 39: 297-308 (1985)

HC99
Armin Haken, Stephen A. Cook: An Exponential Lower Bound for the Size of Monotone Real Circuits. JCSS 58(2): 326-335 (1999)

Pud97
Pudlak, P.
Lower bounds for resolution and cutting planes proofs and monotone computations,
J. of Symb. Logic 62(3), 1997, pp.981-998.

UF96
Alasdair Urquhart, Xudong Fu: Simplified Lower Bounds for Propositional Proofs. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 37(4): 523-544 (1996)



Jochen Messner 2002-10-24