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TR19-050 | 20th March 2019
Titus Dose, Christian Glaßer

NP-Completeness, Proof Systems, and Disjoint NP-Pairs

The article investigates the relation between three well-known hypotheses.
1) Hunion: the union of disjoint complete sets for NP is complete for NP
2) Hopps: there exist optimal propositional proof systems
3) Hcpair: there exist complete disjoint NP-pairs

The following results are obtained:
a) The hypotheses are pairwise independent ... more >>>


TR17-012 | 17th January 2017
Dominik Barth, Moritz Beck, Titus Dose, Christian Glaßer, Larissa Michler, Marc Technau

Emptiness Problems for Integer Circuits

We study the computational complexity of emptiness problems for circuits over sets of natural numbers with the operations union, intersection, complement, addition, and multiplication. For most settings of allowed operations we precisely characterize the complexity in terms of completeness for classes like NL, NP, and PSPACE. The case where intersection, ... more >>>


TR13-188 | 13th December 2013
Christian Glaßer, Maximilian Witek

Autoreducibility and Mitoticity of Logspace-Complete Sets for NP and Other Classes

We study the autoreducibility and mitoticity of complete sets for NP and other complexity classes, where the main focus is on logspace reducibilities. In particular, we obtain:
- For NP and all other classes of the PH: each logspace many-one-complete set is logspace Turing-autoreducible.
- For P, the delta-levels of ... more >>>


TR13-047 | 27th March 2013
Christian Glaßer, Dung Nguyen, Christian Reitwießner, Alan Selman, Maximilian Witek

Autoreducibility of Complete Sets for Log-Space and Polynomial-Time Reductions

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We investigate the autoreducibility and mitoticity of complete sets for several classes with respect to different polynomial-time and logarithmic-space reducibility notions.

Previous work in this area focused on polynomial-time reducibility notions. Here we obtain new mitoticity and autoreducibility results for the classes EXP and NEXP with respect to some restricted ... more >>>


TR11-053 | 11th April 2011
Krzysztof Fleszar, Christian Glaßer, Fabian Lipp, Christian Reitwießner, Maximilian Witek

The Complexity of Solving Multiobjective Optimization Problems and its Relation to Multivalued Functions

Instances of optimization problems with multiple objectives can have several optimal solutions whose cost vectors are incomparable. This ambiguity leads to several reasonable notions for solving multiobjective problems. Each such notion defines a class of multivalued functions. We systematically investigate the computational complexity of these classes.

Some solution notions S ... more >>>


TR10-031 | 4th March 2010
Christian Glaßer, Christian Reitwießner, Heinz Schmitz, Maximilian Witek

Hardness and Approximability in Multi-Objective Optimization

We systematically study the hardness and the approximability of combinatorial multi-objective NP optimization problems (multi-objective problems, for short).

We define solution notions that precisely capture the typical algorithmic tasks in multi-objective optimization. These notions inherit polynomial-time Turing reducibility from multivalued functions, which allows us to compare the solution notions and ... more >>>


TR09-076 | 19th August 2009
Christian Glaßer, Christian Reitwießner, Maximilian Witek

Improved and Derandomized Approximations for Two-Criteria Metric Traveling Salesman

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We improve and derandomize the best known approximation algorithm for the two-criteria metric traveling salesman problem (2-TSP). More precisely, we construct a deterministic 2-approximation which answers an open question by Manthey.

Moreover, we show that 2-TSP is randomized $(3/2+\epsilon ,2)$-approximable, and we give the first randomized approximations for the two-criteria ... more >>>


TR08-029 | 7th January 2008
Christian Glaßer, Christian Reitwießner, Victor Selivanov

The Shrinking Property for NP and coNP

We study the shrinking and separation properties (two notions well-known in descriptive set theory) for NP and coNP and show that under reasonable complexity-theoretic assumptions, both properties do not hold for NP and the shrinking property does not hold for coNP. In particular we obtain the following results.

1. NP ... more >>>


TR07-094 | 3rd August 2007
Christian Glaßer, Heinz Schmitz, Victor Selivanov

Efficient Algorithms for Membership in Boolean Hierarchies of Regular Languages

The purpose of this paper is to provide efficient algorithms that decide membership for classes of several Boolean hierarchies for which efficiency (or even decidability) were previously not known. We develop new forbidden-chain characterizations for the single levels of these hierarchies and obtain the following results:

1. The classes of ... more >>>


TR07-018 | 1st March 2007
Christian Glaßer, Alan L. Selman, Liyu Zhang

The Informational Content of Canonical Disjoint NP-Pairs

We investigate the connection between propositional proof systems and their canonical pairs. It is known that simulations between proof systems translate to reductions between their canonical pairs. We focus on the opposite direction and study the following questions.

Q1: Where does the implication [can(f) \le_m can(g) => f \le_s ... more >>>


TR06-090 | 22nd June 2006
Christian Glaßer, Alan L. Selman, Stephen Travers, Liyu Zhang

Non-Mitotic Sets

<p> We study the question of the existence of non-mitotic sets in NP. We show under various hypotheses that:</p>
<ul>
<li>1-tt-mitoticity and m-mitoticity differ on NP.</li>
<li>1-tt-reducibility and m-reducibility differ on NP.</li>
<li>There exist non-T-autoreducible sets in NP (by a result from Ambos-Spies, these sets are neither ... more >>>


TR06-069 | 11th May 2006
Christian Glaßer, Alan L. Selman, Stephen Travers, Klaus W. Wagner

The Complexity of Unions of Disjoint Sets

This paper is motivated by the open question
whether the union of two disjoint NP-complete sets always is
NP-complete. We discover that such unions retain
much of the complexity of their single components. More precisely,
they are complete with respect to more general reducibilities.

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TR05-147 | 5th December 2005
Christian Glaßer, Stephen Travers

Machines that can Output Empty Words

We propose the e-model for leaf languages which generalizes the known balanced and unbalanced concepts. Inspired by the neutral behavior of rejecting paths of NP machines, we allow transducers to output empty words.

The paper explains several advantages of the new model. A central aspect is that it allows us ... more >>>


TR05-072 | 11th July 2005
Christian Glaßer, Alan L. Selman, Liyu Zhang

Survey of Disjoint NP-Pairs and Relations to Propositional Proof Systems

We survey recent results on disjoint NP-pairs. In particular, we survey the relationship of disjoint NP-pairs to the theory of proof systems for propositional calculus.

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TR05-068 | 7th July 2005
Christian Glaßer, A. Pavan, Alan L. Selman, Liyu Zhang

Redundancy in Complete Sets

We show that a set is m-autoreducible if and only if it is m-mitotic. This solves a long standing open question in a surprising way. As a consequence of this unconditional result and recent work by Glasser et al., complete sets for all of the following complexity classes are m-mitotic: ... more >>>


TR05-035 | 24th March 2005
Christian Glaßer, Stephen Travers, Klaus W. Wagner

A Reducibility that Corresponds to Unbalanced Leaf-Language Classes

We introduce the polynomial-time tree reducibility
(ptt-reducibility). Our main result states that for
languages $B$ and $C$ it holds that
$B$ ptt-reduces to $C$ if and only if
the unbalanced leaf-language class of $B$ is robustly contained in
the unbalanced leaf-language class of $C$.
... more >>>


TR05-011 | 21st December 2004
Christian Glaßer, Mitsunori Ogihara, A. Pavan, Alan L. Selman, Liyu Zhang

Autoreducibility, Mitoticity, and Immunity

We show the following results regarding complete sets:

NP-complete sets and PSPACE-complete sets are many-one
autoreducible.

Complete sets of any level of PH, MODPH, or
the Boolean hierarchy over NP are many-one autoreducible.

EXP-complete sets are many-one mitotic.

NEXP-complete sets are weakly many-one mitotic.

PSPACE-complete sets are weakly Turing-mitotic.

... more >>>

TR04-106 | 19th November 2004
Christian Glaßer, Alan L. Selman, Liyu Zhang

Canonical Disjoint NP-Pairs of Propositional Proof Systems

We prove that every disjoint NP-pair is polynomial-time, many-one equivalent to
the canonical disjoint NP-pair of some propositional proof system. Therefore, the degree structure of the class of disjoint NP-pairs and of all canonical pairs is
identical. Secondly, we show that this degree structure is not superficial: Assuming there exist ... more >>>


TR04-037 | 14th April 2004
Elmar Böhler, Christian Glaßer, Bernhard Schwarz, Klaus W. Wagner

Generation Problems

Given a fixed computable binary operation f, we study the complexity of the following generation problem: The input consists of strings a1,...,an,b. The question is whether b is in the closure of {a1,...,an} under operation f.

For several subclasses of operations we prove tight upper and lower bounds for the ... more >>>


TR04-019 | 15th January 2004
Christian Glaßer, A. Pavan, Alan L. Selman, Samik Sengupta

Properties of NP-Complete Sets

We study several properties of sets that are complete for NP.
We prove that if $L$ is an NP-complete set and $S \not\supseteq L$ is a p-selective sparse set, then $L - S$ is many-one-hard for NP. We demonstrate existence of a sparse set $S \in \mathrm{DTIME}(2^{2^{n}})$
such ... more >>>


TR04-011 | 16th January 2004
Christian Glaßer

Counting with Counterfree Automata

We study the power of balanced regular leaf-languages.
First, we investigate (i) regular languages that are
polylog-time reducible to languages in dot-depth 1/2 and
(ii) regular languages that are polylog-time decidable.
For both classes we provide

- forbidden-pattern characterizations, and
- characterizations in terms of regular expressions.

Both ... more >>>


TR03-069 | 13th August 2003
Elmar Böhler, Christian Glaßer, Daniel Meister

Small Bounded-Error Computations and Completeness

SBP is a probabilistic promise class located
between MA and AM \cap BPPpath. The first
part of the paper studies the question of whether
SBP has many-one complete sets. We relate
this question to the existence of uniform
enumerations. We construct an oracle relative to
which SBP and AM do ... more >>>


TR03-027 | 21st April 2003
Christian Glaßer, Alan L. Selman, Samik Sengupta

Reductions between Disjoint NP-Pairs

We prove that all of the following assertions are equivalent:
There is a many-one complete disjoint NP-pair;
there is a strongly many-one complete disjoint NP-pair;
there is a Turing complete disjoint NP-pair such that all reductions
are smart reductions;
there is a complete disjoint NP-pair for one-to-one, invertible ... more >>>


TR03-011 | 17th February 2003
Christian Glaßer, Alan L. Selman, Samik Sengupta, Liyu Zhang

Disjoint NP-Pairs

We study the question of whether the class DisNP of
disjoint pairs (A, B) of NP-sets contains a complete pair.
The question relates to the question of whether optimal
proof systems exist, and we relate it to the previously
studied question of whether there exists ... more >>>




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