Redundancy in logic II: 2CNF and Horn propositional formulae Original Research Article

We report results about the redundancy of formulae in 2CNF form. In particular, we give a slight improvement over the trivial redundancy algorithm and give some complexity results about some problems related to finding Irredundant Equivalent Subsets (i.e.s.) of 2CNF formulae. The problems of checking whether a 2CNF formula has a unique i.e.s. and checking whether a clause in is all its i.e.s.ʹs are polynomial. Checking whether a 2CNF formula has an i.e.s. of a given size and checking whether a clause is in some i.e.s.ʹs of a 2CNF formula are polynomial or NP-complete depending on whether the formula is cyclic. Some results about Horn formulae are also reported.