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@MISC{Harel80onfolk,
author = {David Harel},
title = {On Folk Theorems},
year = {1980}
}
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Abstract
this paper is to refine this definition somewhat, adapting it to the purposes of the research community in computer science. Accordingly, we shall attempt to provide a reasonable definition of or, rather, criteria for folk theorems, followed by a detailed example illustrating the ideas. The latter endeavor might take one of two possible forms. We could take a piece of folklore and show that it is a theorem, or take a theorem and show that it is folklore. As an example of the first form we could have shown that the statement P NP, which is folklore, is also a theorem. However, since we have resolved to introduce no new technical material in this paper, and moreover, since researchers in our community seem to be less familiar with folklore than with theorems, Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the ACM copyright notice and the title of the publication and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by permission of the Association for Computing Machinery. To copy otherwise, or to republish, requires a fee and/or specific permission
