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The Inference Problem for Propositional Circumscription of Afine Formulas Is coNP-Complete

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We prove that the inference problem of propositional circumscription for afine formulas is coNP-complete, settling this way a longstanding open question in the complexity of nonmonotonic reasoning. We also show that the considered problem becomes polynomial-time decidable if only a single literal has to be inferred from an afine formula.

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Durand, A., Hermann, M. (2003). The Inference Problem for Propositional Circumscription of Afine Formulas Is coNP-Complete. In: Alt, H., Habib, M. (eds) STACS 2003. STACS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2607. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36494-3_40

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