English

NP-Logic Systems and Model-Equivalence Reductions

Logic in Computer Science 2010-06-03 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the existence of model-equivalence reduction between NP-logic systems which are logic systems with model existence problem in NP. It is shown that among all NP-systems with model checking problem in NP, the existentially quantified propositional logic (\exists PF) is maximal with respect to poly-time model-equivalent reduction. However, \exists PF seems not a maximal NP-system in general because there exits a NP-system with model checking problem D^P-complete.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1006.0403,
  title  = {NP-Logic Systems and Model-Equivalence Reductions},
  author = {Yuping Shen and Xishun Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.0403},
  year   = {2010}
}
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