Probabilistically checkable proofs

Can a proof be checked without reading it? That certainly seems impossible, no matter how much reviewers of mathematical papers may wish for this. But theoretical computer science has shown that we can get very close to this objective! Namely random consistency checks could reveal errors in pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sudan, Madhu
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Association for Computing Machinery 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52308