Some trade-off results for polynomial calculus

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We present size-space trade-offs for the polynomial calculus (PC) and polynomial calculus resolution (PCR) proof systems. These are the first true size-space trade-offs in any algebraic proof system, showing that size and space cannot be simultaneously optimized in these models. We achieve this by extending essentially all known size-space trade-offs for resolution to PC and PCR. As such, our results cover space complexity from constant all the way up to exponential and yield mostly superpolynomial or even exponential size blow-ups. Since the upper bounds in our trade-offs hold for resolution, our work shows that there are formulas for which adding algebraic reasoning on top of resolution does not improve the trade-off properties in any significant way. As byproducts of our analysis, we also obtain trade-offs between space and degree in PC and PCR exactly matching analogous results for space versus width in resolution, and strengthen the resolution trade-offs in [Beame, Beck, and Impagliazzo '12] to apply also to k-CNF formulas.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelSTOC 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing
Antal sider10
Publikationsdato2013
Sider813-822
ISBN (Trykt)9781450320290
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2013
Eksternt udgivetJa
Begivenhed45th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC 2013 - Palo Alto, CA, USA
Varighed: 1 jun. 20134 jun. 2013

Konference

Konference45th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC 2013
LandUSA
ByPalo Alto, CA
Periode01/06/201304/06/2013
SponsorACM Spec. Interest Group Algorithms Comput. Theory (SIGACT)
NavnProceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing
ISSN0737-8017

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