Title :
Proving SAT does not have small circuits with an application to the two queries problem
Author :
Fortnow, Lance ; Pavan, A. ; Sengupta, Samik
Author_Institution :
NEC Labs., Princeton, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We show that if SAT does not have small circuits, then there must exist a small number of formulas such that every small circuit fails to compute satisfiability correctly on at least one of these formulas. We use this result to show that if PNP[1]=PNP[2], then the polynomial-time hierarchy collapses to S2P⊆Σ2p∩Π2p. Even showing that the hierarchy collapsed to Σ2p remained open.
Keywords :
circuit complexity; computability; formal languages; probability; set theory; theorem proving; SAT; polynomial-time hierarchy; polynomial-time prover; probability; satisfiability; small circuit; two queries problem; Application software; Circuits; Computational complexity; Computer science; National electric code; Polynomials; Power engineering computing; Turing machines;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Complexity, 2003. Proceedings. 18th IEEE Annual Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1879-6
DOI :
10.1109/CCC.2003.1214433