It was recently shown by Atserias, Buss and Mueller that the standard complexity-theoretic conjecture NEXP not in P / poly is consistent with the relatively strong bounded arithmetic theory V^0_2, which can prove a substantial part of complexity theory. We observe that their approach can be extended to show that the stronger conjectures NEXP not in EXP / poly and NEXP not in coNEXP are consistent with a stronger theory, which includes every true universal number-sort sentence.

@article{paperbot3347,
  title = {On the consistency of stronger lower bounds for NEXP},
  author = {Neil Thapen},
  journal = {Logical Methods in Computer Science},
  volume = {Volume 21, Issue 4},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.46298/lmcs-21(4:23)2025}
}