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- From: fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk)
- Newsgroups: comp.theory
- Subject: Re: Lower bound independence
- Keywords: NP, independence
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.155959.26446@cs.rochester.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 15:59:59 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.204321.4615@math.waterloo.edu>
- Organization: Computer Science Department University of Rochester
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- In article <1992Jul23.204321.4615@math.waterloo.edu> alopez-o@neumann.waterloo.edu (Alex Lopez-Ortiz) writes:
- >I recall reading about a proof that there exists a problem of complexity
- >n^2 for which only an exponential lower bound could ever be proven
- >within some formal system. Iread the note in a survey.
-
- You clearly have this wrong, since an n^2 problem could not have an
- exponential lower bound. I suspect that you are referring to work
- of Case and Royer, which shows the existence, for any reasonable formal
- system F, of a problem that is in linear time, provable in F to be in
- quadratic time (a clocked TM is supplied), but not provable in F to be
- in linear time. The proof is a fairly straightforward diagonalization.
- For details and references, you might email royer@top.cis.syr.edu
-
- Mark
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- Mark A. Fulk University of Rochester
- Computer Science Department fulk@cs.rochester.edu
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