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1. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Many hard examples for resolution

   Chvátal and Szemerédi · Journal of the ACM · 1988

   The paper shows that, for suitable clause sizes and densities, randomly chosen unsatisfiable clause families almost surely force resolution proofs to generate exponentially many clauses.

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   1. UncheckedRandom clause sets with enough clauses are almost surely unsatisfiable, yet every resolution proof of this needs exponentially many clauses.“For every choice of positive integers c and k such that k ≥ 3 and c 2 - k ≥ 0.7, there is a positive number ε such that, with probability tending to 1 as n tends to ∞, a randomly chosen family of cn clauses of size k over n variables is unsatisfiable, but every resolution proof of its unsatisfiabil…”