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The complexity of proving that a graph is Ramsey

Computational Complexity 2013-03-14 v1

Abstract

We say that a graph with nn vertices is cc-Ramsey if it does not contain either a clique or an independent set of size clognc \log n. We define a CNF formula which expresses this property for a graph GG. We show a superpolynomial lower bound on the length of resolution proofs that GG is cc-Ramsey, for every graph GG. 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.

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@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

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