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Reordering Rule Makes OBDD Proof Systems Stronger

Authors Sam Buss, Dmitry Itsykson, Alexander Knop, Dmitry Sokolov

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  • Theory of computation → Computational complexity and cryptography
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  • Proof complexity
  • OBDD
  • Tseitin formulas
  • the Clique-Coloring principle
  • lifting theorems

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Abstract

Atserias, Kolaitis, and Vardi showed that the proof system of Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams with conjunction and weakening, OBDD(^, weakening), simulates CP^* (Cutting Planes with unary coefficients). We show that OBDD(^, weakening) can give exponentially shorter proofs than dag-like cutting planes. This is proved by showing that the Clique-Coloring tautologies have polynomial size proofs in the OBDD(^, weakening) system.
The reordering rule allows changing the variable order for OBDDs. We show that OBDD(^, weakening, reordering) is strictly stronger than OBDD(^, weakening). This is proved using the Clique-Coloring tautologies, and by transforming tautologies using coded permutations and orification. We also give CNF formulas which have polynomial size OBDD(^) proofs but require superpolynomial (actually, quasipolynomial size) resolution proofs, and thus we partially resolve an open question proposed by Groote and Zantema.
Applying dag-like and tree-like lifting techniques to the mentioned results, we completely analyze which of the systems among CP^*, OBDD(^), OBDD(^, reordering), OBDD(^, weakening) and OBDD(^, weakening, reordering) polynomially simulate each other. For dag-like proof systems, some of our separations are quasipolynomial and some are exponential; for tree-like systems, all of our separations are exponential.

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Sam Buss, Dmitry Itsykson, Alexander Knop, and Dmitry Sokolov. Reordering Rule Makes OBDD Proof Systems Stronger. In 33rd Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 102, pp. 16:1-16:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2018.16

Author Details

Sam Buss
  • University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Dmitry Itsykson
  • St. Petersburg Department of V.A. Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
Alexander Knop
  • University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA, St. Petersburg Department of V.A. Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
Dmitry Sokolov
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden , St. Petersburg Department of V.A. Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

Funding

The research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project 16-11-10123)

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