On the bit complexity of sum-of-squares proofs

DOI10.4230/LIPICS.ICALP.2017.80MaRDI QIDQ5111411zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Prasad Raghavendra, Benjamin Weitz

Publication date 27 May 2020

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05139

zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial optimizationproof complexitysum-of-squares

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25) Combinatorial optimization (90C27) Complexity of proofs (03F20)

Abstract: It has often been claimed in recent papers that one can find a degree d Sum-of-Squares proof if one exists via the Ellipsoid algorithm. In [O17], Ryan O'Donnell notes this widely quoted claim is not necessarily true. He presents an example of a polynomial system with bounded coeffcients that admits low-degree proofs of non-negativity, but these proofs necessarily involve numbers with an exponential number of bits, causing the Ellipsoid algorithm to take exponential time. In this paper we obtain both positive and negative results on the bit complexity of SoS proofs. First, we propose a suffcient condition on a polynomial system that implies a bound on the coefficients in an SoS proof. We demonstrate that this sufficient condition is applicable for common use-cases of the SoS algorithm, such as Max-CSP, Balanced Separator, Max- Clique, Max-Bisection, and Unit-Vector constraints. On the negative side, O'Donnell asked whether every polynomial system containing Boolean constraints admits proofs of polynomial bit complexity. We answer this question in the negative, giving a counterexample system and non-negative polynomial which has degree two SoS proofs, but no SoS proof with small coefficients until degree Omega(sqrt(n))

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