On the complexity of finding falsifying assignments for Herbrand disjunctions
Logic in Computer Science
2014-11-14 v1 Logic
Abstract
Suppose that is a consistent sentence. Then there is no Herbrand proof of , which means that any Herbrand disjunction made from the prenex form of is falsifiable. We show that the problem of finding such a falsifying assignment is hard in the following sense. For every total polynomial search problem , there exists a consistent such that finding solutions to can be reduced to finding a falsifying assignment to an Herbrand disjunction made from . It has been conjectured that there are no complete total polynomial search problems. If this conjecture is true, then for every consistent sentence , there exists a consistence sentence , such that the search problem associated with cannot be reduced to the search problem associated with .
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@article{arxiv.1411.3304,
title = {On the complexity of finding falsifying assignments for Herbrand disjunctions},
author = {Pavel Pudlak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.3304},
year = {2014}
}