Langbeschreibung
Discusses the deep connections between logic and complexity theory, and lists a number of intriguing open problems.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. Basic complexity theory; 4. Basic propositional logic; 5. Basic bounded arithmetic; 6. Definability of computations; 7. Witnessing theorems; 8. Definability and witnessing in second order theories; 9. Translations of arithmetic formulas; 10. Finite axiomatizability problem; 11. Direct independence proofs; 12. Bounds for constant-depth Frege systems; 13. Bounds for Frege and extended Frege systems; 14. Hard tautologies and optimal proof systems; 15. Strength of bounded arithmetic; References; Index.