{ "id": "math/0007025", "version": "v4", "published": "2000-07-05T19:17:03.000Z", "updated": "2000-07-11T15:26:12.000Z", "title": "A note on an alleged proof of the relative consistency of P=NP with PA", "authors": [ "Ralf Schindler" ], "comment": "4 pages", "categories": [ "math.LO" ], "abstract": "We indicate that an argument of da Costa and Doria in fact proves P=NP. This observation makes their argument appear dubious. We isolate a weak version of one of their lemmas which would already prove P=NP. We point out that even this weak version is probably false. In fact, a generalized form of this weak version is provably false.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v4", "updated": "2000-07-11T15:26:12.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "relative consistency", "alleged proof", "weak version", "da costa", "argument appear dubious" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 4, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2000math......7025S" } } }