Are there any EXPTIME-COMPLETE problems that cannot be proven to be PSPACE-COMPLETE?
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No one knows. While it is conjectured that PSPACE $\ne$ EXPTIME, no one has any proof. In other words, it is consistent with all of our state of knowledge that PSPACE = EXPTIME. In particular:
If PSPACE = EXPTIME, then every EXPTIME-complete problem is also PSPACE-complete.
If PSPACE $\ne$ EXPTIME, then every EXPTIME-complete problem is not PSPACE-complete.
No one knows which of those two cases is true.
See, e.g., Why do we believe that PSPACE ≠ EXPTIME?.
D.W.
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