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LOGCOM
2007
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On Independence of Variants of the Weak Pigeonhole Principle
The principle sPHPa b (PV (α)) states that no oracle circuit can compute a surjection of a onto b. We show that sPHP (a) P (a)(PV (α)) is independent of PV1(α)+sPHP π(a) Π(a)...
Emil Jerábek
MLQ
2010
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Abelian groups and quadratic residues in weak arithmetic
We investigate the provability of some properties of abelian groups and quadratic residues in variants of bounded arithmetic. Specifically, we show that the structure theorem for...
Emil Jerábek
MSS
2010
IEEE
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A trichotomy of attitudes for decision-making under complete ignorance
This paper investigates ‘complete ignorance’ (CI) in the tradition of the CI literature and provides a characterization of possible attitudes toward ignorance. Pessimism, opti...
Ronan Congar, François Maniquet