Fine-Grained Proof Complexity for Elementary Arithmetic in Extended Frege

with Jiatu Li and Elaine Shi

STOC 2027 (under review)

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We study the quantitative efficiency of propositional proofs and give quasi-linear-size Extended Frege proofs of basic laws of integer arithmetic. The construction uses a technique called index generalization and represents multiplication with an FFT-based algorithm.