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arxiv: 1412.1124 · v1 · pith:IADYAPABnew · submitted 2014-12-02 · 💻 cs.CC

Tree-like resolution complexity of two planar problems

classification 💻 cs.CC
keywords arrowslemmaspernerboundcellscompleteencodesfact
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We consider two CSP problems: the first CSP encodes 2D Sperner's lemma for the standard triangulation of the right triangle on $n^2$ small triangles; the second CSP encodes the fact that it is impossible to match cells of $n \times n$ square to arrows (two horizontal, two vertical and four diagonal) such that arrows in two cells with a common edge differ by at most $45^\circ$, and all arrows on the boundary of the square do not look outside (this fact is a corollary of the Brower's fixed point theorem). We prove that the tree-like resolution complexities of these CSPs are $2^{\Theta(n)}$. For Sperner's lemma our result implies $\Omega(n)$ lower bound on the number of request to colors of vertices that is enough to make in order to find a trichromatic triangle; this lower bound was originally proved by Crescenzi and Silvestri. CSP based on Sperner's lemma is related with the $\rm PPAD$-complete problem. We show that CSP corresponding to arrows is also related with a $\rm PPAD$-complete problem.

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