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Searching for Falsified Clause in Random (log n)-CNFs is Hard for Randomized Communication

Published: July 16, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2507.12124v1

By: Artur Riazanov , Anastasia Sofronova , Dmitry Sokolov and more

Potential Business Impact:

Finds why a puzzle has no answer.

We show that for a randomly sampled unsatisfiable $O(\log n)$-CNF over $n$ variables the randomized two-party communication cost of finding a clause falsified by the given variable assignment is linear in $n$.

Country of Origin
🇨🇭 Switzerland

Page Count
20 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Computational Complexity