The complexity of proving that a graph is Ramsey
Computational Complexity
2013-03-14 v1
Abstract
We say that a graph with vertices is -Ramsey if it does not contain either a clique or an independent set of size . We define a CNF formula which expresses this property for a graph . We show a superpolynomial lower bound on the length of resolution proofs that is -Ramsey, for every graph . Our proof makes use of the fact that every Ramsey graph must contain a large subgraph with some of the statistical properties of the random graph.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1303.3166,
title = {The complexity of proving that a graph is Ramsey},
author = {Massimo Lauria and Pavel Pudlák and Vojtěch Rödl and Neil Thapen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.3166},
year = {2013}
}
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14 pages