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POLYNOMIAL LOCAL SEARCH IN THE POLYNOMIAL HIERARCHY AND WITNESSING IN FRAGMENTS OF BOUNDED ARITHMETIC
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SAMUEL R. BUSS
Journal of Mathematical Logic, Volume: 09, Issue: 01, Pages: 103 - 138
Swansea University Author:
Arnold Beckmann
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DOI (Published version): 10.1142/S0219061309000847
Abstract
The complexity class of $Pi^p_k$-polynomial local search (PLS) problems is introduced and is used to give new witnessing theorems for fragments of bounded arithmetic. For 1≤i≤k+1, the $Sigma^p_i$-definable functions of $T^{k+1}_2$ are characterized in terms of $\Pi^p_k$-PLS problems. These $\Pi^p_k$...
| Published in: | Journal of Mathematical Logic |
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| ISSN: | 0219-0613 |
| Published: |
2009
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa5269 |
| Abstract: |
The complexity class of $Pi^p_k$-polynomial local search (PLS) problems is introduced and is used to give new witnessing theorems for fragments of bounded arithmetic. For 1≤i≤k+1, the $Sigma^p_i$-definable functions of $T^{k+1}_2$ are characterized in terms of $\Pi^p_k$-PLS problems. These $\Pi^p_k$-PLS problems can be defined in a weak base theory such as $S^1_2$, and proved to be total in $T^{k+1}_2$. Furthermore, the $\Pi^p_k$-PLS definitions can be skolemized with simple polynomial time functions, and the witnessing theorem itself can be formalized, and skolemized, in a weak base theory. We introduce a new $\forall \Sigma^b_1(\alpha)$-principle that is conjectured to separate $T^k_2(\alpha)$ and $T^{k+1}_2(\alpha)$. |
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| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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01 |
| Start Page: |
103 |
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138 |