Supercritical space-width trade-offs for resolution

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Supercritical space-width trade-offs for resolution. / Berkholz, Christoph; Nordström, Jakob.

43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, ICALP 2016. ed. / Yuval Rabani; Ioannis Chatzigiannakis; Davide Sangiorgi; Michael Mitzenmacher. Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing, 2016. 57 (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs, Vol. 55).

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Berkholz, C & Nordström, J 2016, Supercritical space-width trade-offs for resolution. in Y Rabani, I Chatzigiannakis, D Sangiorgi & M Mitzenmacher (eds), 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, ICALP 2016., 57, Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs, vol. 55, 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, ICALP 2016, Rome, Italy, 12/07/2016. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.57

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Berkholz, C., & Nordström, J. (2016). Supercritical space-width trade-offs for resolution. In Y. Rabani, I. Chatzigiannakis, D. Sangiorgi, & M. Mitzenmacher (Eds.), 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, ICALP 2016 [57] Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs Vol. 55 https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.57

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Berkholz C, Nordström J. Supercritical space-width trade-offs for resolution. In Rabani Y, Chatzigiannakis I, Sangiorgi D, Mitzenmacher M, editors, 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, ICALP 2016. Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing. 2016. 57. (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs, Vol. 55). https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.57

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Berkholz, Christoph ; Nordström, Jakob. / Supercritical space-width trade-offs for resolution. 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, ICALP 2016. editor / Yuval Rabani ; Ioannis Chatzigiannakis ; Davide Sangiorgi ; Michael Mitzenmacher. Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing, 2016. (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs, Vol. 55).

Bibtex

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abstract = "We show that there are CNF formulas which can be refuted in resolution in both small space and small width, but for which any small-width resolution proof must have space exceeding by far the linear worst-case upper bound. This significantly strengthens the space-width trade-offs in [Ben- Sasson 2009], and provides one more example of trade-offs in the {"}supercritical{"} regime above worst case recently identified by [Razborov 2016]. We obtain our results by using Razborov's new hardness condensation technique and combining it with the space lower bounds in [Ben-Sasson and Nordstr{\"o}m 2008].",
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