Spring 2025 exam questions from "Logic and complexity".




  • (1) Fagin's theorem and the characterization of spectra as NE sets.

  • (2) Sigma^b_1-formulas define exactly NP sets.

  • (3) Herbrand's theorem. The KPT theorem and its Student-Teacher interpretation.

  • (4) Kolmogorov's complexity K and Chaitin's version of the incompleteness theorem.
    Levin's time-bounded variant Kt of K and optimal search.

  • (5) Cook-Reckhow proof systems, simulations and p-simulations among them.
    The existence of a p-bounded proof system and the NP vs. coNP problem.
    An optimal proof search algorithm for a given proof system.