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As a natural extension of the SAT problem, an array of proof systems for quantified Boolean formulas (QBF) have been proposed, many of which extend a propositional proof system to handle universal quantification. By formalising the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Olaf Beyersdorff , Joshua Blinkhorn , Luke Hinde

We examine the $C^{0}$-formulation of the strong cosmic censorship conjecture (SCC) from a quantum complexity-theoretic perspective and argue that for generic black hole parameters as initial conditions for the Einstein equations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-20 Aditya Iyer , Alexander Y. Yosifov , Vlatko Vedral

We prove near-optimal trade-offs for quantifier depth versus number of variables in first-order logic by exhibiting pairs of $n$-element structures that can be distinguished by a $k$-variable first-order sentence but where every such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Christoph Berkholz , Jakob Nordström

Dimensional reduction has proven to be a surprisingly powerful tool for delineating the boundary between the string landscape and the swampland. Bounds from the Weak Gravity Conjecture and the Repulsive Force Conjecture, for instance, are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Tom Rudelius

We derive an upper bound on the number of models for exact satisfiability (XSAT) of arbitrary CNF formulas F. The bound can be calculated solely from the distribution of positive and negated literals in the formula. For certain subsets of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Bernd Schuh

We investigate query-to-communication lifting theorems for models related to the quantum adversary bounds. Our results are as follows: 1. We show that the classical adversary bound lifts to a lower bound on randomized communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Anurag Anshu , Shalev Ben-David , Srijita Kundu

We investigate the size complexity of proofs in $Res(s)$ -- an extension of Resolution working on $s$-DNFs instead of clauses -- for families of contradictions given in the {\em unusual binary} encoding. A motivation of our work is size…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Stefan Dantchev , Nicola Galesi , Barnaby Martin

Since the introduction of the Ideal Proof System (IPS) by Grochow and Pitassi (J. ACM 2018), a substantial body of work has established size lower bounds for IPS and its fragments. In particular, Forbes, Shpilka, Tzameret, and Wigderson…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Tuomas Hakoniemi , Nutan Limaye , Iddo Tzameret

We consider the mass-subcritical NLS in dimensions $d\geq 3$ with radial initial data. In the defocusing case, we prove that any solution that remains bounded in the critical Sobolev space throughout its lifespan must be global and scatter.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-04 Rowan Killip , Satoshi Masaki , Jason Murphy , Monica Visan

We investigate the space complexity of refuting $3$-CNFs in Resolution and algebraic systems. We prove that every Polynomial Calculus with Resolution refutation of a random $3$-CNF $\phi$ in $n$ variables requires, with high probability,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-04-03 Patrick Bennett , Ilario Bonacina , Nicola Galesi , Tony Huynh , Mike Molloy , Paul Wollan

Counterfactual Explanations are becoming a de-facto standard in post-hoc interpretable machine learning. For a given classifier and an instance classified in an undesired class, its counterfactual explanation corresponds to small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Veronica Piccialli , Dolores Romero Morales , Cecilia Salvatore

Strong cosmic censorship conjecture has been one of the most important leap of faith in the context of general relativity, providing assurance in the deterministic nature of the associated field equations. Though it holds well for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-28 Mostafizur Rahman , Sumanta Chakraborty , Soumitra SenGupta , Anjan A. Sen

The parametrization theorem is derived in a flat nD pseudo-complex affine space. The pseudo-complex hyperbolic space accomodates n-number of uncompactified time-like extra dimensions with sugnature (s,r), where s and r are the numbers of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-02 Minh Q. Truong

We exhibit families of $4$-CNF formulas over $n$ variables that have sums-of-squares (SOS) proofs of unsatisfiability of degree (a.k.a. rank) $d$ but require SOS proofs of size $n^{\Omega(d)}$ for values of $d = d(n)$ from constant all the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-04-08 Massimo Lauria , Jakob Nordström

Itsykson and Sokolov [IS14] identified resolution over parities, denoted by $\text{Res}(\oplus)$, as a natural and simple fragment of $\text{AC}^0[2]$-Frege for which no super-polynomial lower bounds on size of proofs are known. Building on…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Sreejata Kishor Bhattacharya , Arkadev Chattopadhyay

Already in $\bf{R}^4$, there are many known examples of minimal hypersurfaces, yet few structural results. We show that minimal submanifolds, of any dimension, that are confined in space are very restricted. It is well-known that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

This paper discusses the topic of the minimum width of a regular resolution refutation of a set of clauses. The main result shows that there are examples having small regular resolution refutations, for which any regular refutation must…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Alasdair Urquhart

We establish a Trudinger-Moser type inequality with a Tintarev-type constraint in fractional-dimensional spaces and prove the existence of maximizers in the critical regime. Our results provide a refinement of those in (Calc. Var. 52…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Ruan Diego da Silva Paiva , José Francisco de Oliveira

Resolution over linear equations is a natural extension of the popular resolution refutation system, augmented with the ability to carry out basic counting. Denoted Res(lin_R), this refutation system operates with disjunctions of linear…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Fedor Part , Iddo Tzameret

We investigate the space complexity of refuting $3$-CNFs in Resolution and algebraic systems. No lower bound for refuting any family of $3$-CNFs was previously known for the total space in resolution or for the monomial space in algebraic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Ilario Bonacina , Nicola Galesi , Tony Huynh , Paul Wollan