Extended Frege proofs, circuits and rewriting
This paper proves several properties about Extended Frege proof systems and circuit equivalence.
This paper provides a novel characterization of circuit equivalence and transformation in the context of Extended Frege proof systems.
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Abstract
More Like ThisInspired by a statement about Extended Frege proof systems by Jain and Jin (FOCS 2022) we prove that: - there is a p-time binary relation $\approx$ between circuits that implies their logical equivalence, - the relation $\approx$ implies that each of the two circuits can be rewritten into the other one by possibly deleting some gates and adding at most seven new gates, - if the equivalence $C \equiv D$ has a size $s$ proof in an Extended Frege or a Circuit Frege proof system then there is a chain of circuits $E_i$ $$ C = E_0 \approx \dots \approx E_t = D $$ with $t \le s^{O(1)}$.