Counting problems in bounded arithmetic

Author(s):  
J. Paris ◽  
A. Wilkie
1988 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirosław Kutyłowski

AbstractIn this paper we present a negative solution of counting problems for some classes slightly different from bounded arithmetic (Δ0sets). To get the results we study properties of chains of finite automata.


2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-130
Author(s):  
Zofia Adamowicz ◽  
Leszek Aleksander Kołodziejczyk
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2011 ◽  
Vol 412 (23) ◽  
pp. 2468-2485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin-Yi Cai ◽  
Pinyan Lu ◽  
Mingji Xia
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2014 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 496-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
SAMUEL R. BUSS ◽  
LESZEK ALEKSANDER KOŁODZIEJCZYK ◽  
NEIL THAPEN

AbstractWe study the long-standing open problem of giving $\forall {\rm{\Sigma }}_1^b$ separations for fragments of bounded arithmetic in the relativized setting. Rather than considering the usual fragments defined by the amount of induction they allow, we study Jeřábek’s theories for approximate counting and their subtheories. We show that the $\forall {\rm{\Sigma }}_1^b$ Herbrandized ordering principle is unprovable in a fragment of bounded arithmetic that includes the injective weak pigeonhole principle for polynomial time functions, and also in a fragment that includes the surjective weak pigeonhole principle for FPNP functions. We further give new propositional translations, in terms of random resolution refutations, for the consequences of $T_2^1$ augmented with the surjective weak pigeonhole principle for polynomial time functions.


2013 ◽  
Vol 107 (3) ◽  
pp. 172-175
Author(s):  
Kristy B. McGowan ◽  
Nathan J. Lowe Spicer

Students analyze items from the media to answer mathematical questions related to the article. The clips this month, from the Colorado State lottery and a Marilyn vos Savant column on probability, involve probability and counting problems.


2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 132-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elise Lockwood
Keyword(s):  

A branch of mathematics—combinatorics—is explored through counting problems.


2006 ◽  
Vol 192 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Enayat
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