Title
Reinterpreting Dependency Schemes: Soundness Meets Incompleteness in DQBF
Abstract
Dependency quantified Boolean formulas (DQBF) and QBF dependency schemes have been treated separately in the literature, even though both treatments extend QBF by replacing the linear order of the quantifier prefix with a partial order. We propose to merge the two, by reinterpreting a dependency scheme as a mapping from QBF into DQBF. Our approach offers a fresh insight on the nature of soundness in proof systems for QBF with dependency schemes, in which a natural property called ‘full exhibition’ is central. We apply our approach to QBF proof systems from two distinct paradigms, termed ‘universal reduction’ and ‘universal expansion’. We show that full exhibition is sufficient (but not necessary) for soundness in universal reduction systems for QBF with dependency schemes, whereas for expansion systems the same property characterises soundness exactly. We prove our results by investigating DQBF proof systems, and then employing our reinterpretation of dependency schemes. Finally, we show that the reflexive resolution path dependency scheme is fully exhibited, thereby proving a conjecture of Slivovsky.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s10817-018-9482-4
Journal of Automated Reasoning
Keywords
Field
DocType
Quantified Boolean formulas, DQBF, Dependency schemes, F.2.2 Nonnumerical algorithms and problems
Discrete mathematics,Theoretical computer science,Prefix,Reinterpretation,Soundness,Merge (version control),Conjecture,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
63
3
1573-0670
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
27
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Olaf Beyersdorff122330.33
Joshua Blinkhorn236.16
Leroy Chew3557.02
Renate A. Schmidt485783.52
Martin Suda 0001594.54