English

Small circuits and dual weak PHP in the universal theory of p-time algorithms

Logic 2021-05-18 v2 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We prove, under a computational complexity hypothesis, that it is consistent with the true universal theory of p-time algorithms that a specific p-time function extending nn bits to mn2m \geq n^2 bits violates the dual weak pigeonhole principle: every string yy of length mm equals the value of the function for some xx of length nn. The function is the truth-table function assigning to a circuit the table of the function it computes and the hypothesis is that every language in P has circuits of a fixed polynomial size ndn^d.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2004.11582,
  title  = {Small circuits and dual weak PHP in the universal theory of p-time algorithms},
  author = {Jan Krajicek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.11582},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Preprint April 2020, revision December 2020

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