1. An Exponential Lower Bound on OBDD Refutations for Pigeonhole Formulas
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Heling-Tveretina, O., Sinz, C., Zantema, H., Markakis, E., Milis, I., Formal System Analysis, Markakis, E., and Milis, I.
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FOS: Computer and information sciences ,Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science ,Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science ,lcsh:Mathematics ,Computation ,Pigeonhole principle ,Data Science ,Computational Complexity (cs.CC) ,Computer Science::Artificial Intelligence ,Computer Science::Computational Complexity ,Resolution (logic) ,lcsh:QA1-939 ,Upper and lower bounds ,Omega ,lcsh:QA75.5-76.95 ,Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO) ,Exponential function ,Combinatorics ,Computer Science - Computational Complexity ,Computer Science::Logic in Computer Science ,ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING ,lcsh:Electronic computers. Computer science ,Mathematics - Abstract
Haken proved that every resolution refutation of the pigeonhole formula has at least exponential size. Groote and Zantema proved that a particular OBDD computation of the pigeonhole formula has an exponential size. Here we show that any arbitrary OBDD refutation of the pigeonhole formula has an exponential size, too: we prove that the size of one of the intermediate OBDDs is at least $\Omega(1.025^n)$.
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- 2009
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