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Satisfiable Tseitin Formulas Are Hard for Nondeterministic Read-Once Branching Programs

Authors Ludmila Glinskih, Dmitry Itsykson

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  • Tseitin formula
  • read-once branching program
  • expander

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Abstract

We consider satisfiable Tseitin formulas TS_{G,c} based on d-regular expanders G with the absolute value of the second largest eigenvalue less than d/3. We prove that any nondeterministic read-once branching program (1-NBP) representing TS_{G,c} has size 2^{\Omega(n)}, where n is the number of vertices in G. It extends the recent result by Itsykson at el. [STACS 2017] from OBDD to 1-NBP.

On the other hand it is easy to see that TS_{G,c} can be represented as a read-2 branching program (2-BP) of size O(n), as the negation of a nondeterministic read-once branching program (1-coNBP) of size O(n) and as a CNF formula of size O(n). Thus TS_{G,c} gives the best possible separations (up to a constant in the exponent) between
1-NBP and 2-BP, 1-NBP and 1-coNBP and between 1-NBP and CNF.

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Ludmila Glinskih and Dmitry Itsykson. Satisfiable Tseitin Formulas Are Hard for Nondeterministic Read-Once Branching Programs. In 42nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 83, pp. 26:1-26:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2017.26

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Ludmila Glinskih
Dmitry Itsykson

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