English

Every super-polynomial proof in purely implicational minimal logic has a polynomially sized proof in classical implicational propositional logic

Computational Complexity 2015-08-14 v3 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

In this article we show how any formula A with a proof in minimal implicational logic that is super-polynomially sized has a polynomially-sized proof in classical implicational propositional logic . This fact provides an argument in favor that any classical propositional tautology has short proofs, i.e., NP=CoNP.

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@article{arxiv.1505.06506,
  title  = {Every super-polynomial proof in purely implicational minimal logic has a polynomially sized proof in classical implicational propositional logic},
  author = {Edward Hermann Haeusler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.06506},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a fatal error in the general form of the deduction used for proved the main proposition

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