Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences - Complexity and Cryptography

Disjoint NP-pairs from propositional proof systems

O. Beyersdorff

Abstract:

For a 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 the previously
defined canonical NP-pairs of 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.

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