Witnessing functions in bounded arithmetic and search problems

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1943-5886|63|3|1095-1115

ISSN: 0022-4812

Source: The Journal of Symbolic Logic, Vol.63, Iss.3, 1998-09, pp. : 1095-1115

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Abstract

We investigate the possibility to characterize (multi)functions that are -definable with small i (i = 1, 2, 3) in fragments of bounded arithmetic T 2 in terms of natural search problems defined over polynomial-time structures. We obtain the following results: