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Linear Gaps between Degrees for the Polynomial Calculus Modulo Distinct Primes

✍ Scribed by Sam Buss; Dima Grigoriev; Russell Impagliazzo; Toniann Pitassi


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
214 KB
Volume
62
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-0000

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✦ Synopsis


This paper gives nearly optimal lower bounds on the minimum degree of polynomial calculus refutations of Tseitin's graph tautologies and the mod p counting principles, p 2. The lower bounds apply to the polynomial calculus over fields or rings. These are the first linear lower bounds for the polynomial calculus for k-CNF formulas. As a consequence, it follows that