Characterizing Tseitin-Formulas with Short Regular Resolution Refutations

Authors: Alexis de Colnet, Stefan Mengel

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Research Type Theoretical In this paper, we prove that a class of unsatisfiable Tseitin-formulas of bounded degree has regular resolution refutations of polynomial length if and only if the treewidth of all underlying graphs G for that class is in O(log |V (G)|). Our proof first connects the length of regular resolution refutations of unsatisfiable Tseitin-formulas to the size of representations of satisfiable Tseitin-formulas in decomposable negation normal form (DNNF). Then we prove that for every graph G of bounded degree, every DNNF-representation of every satisfiable Tseitin-formula with graph G must have size 2Ω(tw(G)) which yields our lower bound for regular resolution.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Alexis de Colnet EMAIL Algorithms and Complexity Group, TU Wien Vienna, Austria Stefan Mengel EMAIL Univ. Artois, CNRS Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Lens (CRIL) F-62300 Lens, France
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