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Reports tagged with NP-complete:
TR95-033 | 29th June 1995
Richard Beigel, David Eppstein

3-Coloring in time O(1.3446^n): a no-MIS algorithm

We consider worst case time bounds for NP-complete problems
including 3-SAT, 3-coloring, 3-edge-coloring, and 3-list-coloring.
Our algorithms are based on a common generalization of these problems,
called symbol-system satisfiability or, briefly, SSS [R. Floyd &
R. Beigel, The Language of Machines]. 3-SAT is equivalent to
(2,3)-SSS while the other problems ... more >>>


TR95-036 | 5th July 1995
Richard Beigel, William Gasarch, Efim Kinber

Frequency Computation and Bounded Queries

For a set A and a number n let F_n^A(x_1,...,x_n) =
A(x_1)\cdots A(x_n). We study how hard it is to approximate this
function in terms of the number of queries required. For a general
set A we have exact bounds that depend on functions from coding
theory. These are applied ... more >>>


TR03-023 | 12th February 2003
Anna Palbom

On Spanning Cacti and Asymmetric TSP

In an attempt to generalize Christofides algorithm for metric TSP to the asymmetric TSP with triangle inequality we have studied various properties of directed spanning cacti. In this paper we first observe that finding the TSP in a directed, weighted complete graph with triangle inequality is polynomial time equivalent to ... more >>>


TR05-026 | 15th February 2005
Scott Aaronson

NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality

Can NP-complete problems be solved efficiently in the physical universe?
I survey proposals including soap bubbles, protein folding, quantum
computing, quantum advice, quantum adiabatic algorithms,
quantum-mechanical nonlinearities, hidden variables, relativistic time
dilation, analog computing, Malament-Hogarth spacetimes, quantum
gravity, closed timelike curves, and "anthropic computing." The ... more >>>


TR12-079 | 14th June 2012
Olaf Beyersdorff, Samir Datta, Andreas Krebs, Meena Mahajan, Gido Scharfenberger-Fabian, Karteek Sreenivasaiah, Michael Thomas, Heribert Vollmer

Verifying Proofs in Constant Depth

In this paper we initiate the study of proof systems where verification of proofs proceeds by NC0 circuits. We investigate the question which languages admit proof systems in this very restricted model. Formulated alternatively, we ask which languages can be enumerated by NC0 functions. Our results show that the answer ... more >>>


TR12-090 | 2nd July 2012
Michael Blondin, Andreas Krebs, Pierre McKenzie

The Complexity of Intersecting Finite Automata Having Few Final States

The problem of determining whether several finite automata accept a word in common is closely related to the well-studied membership problem in transformation monoids. We raise the issue of limiting the number of final states in the automata intersection problem. For automata with two final states, we show the problem ... more >>>


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 >>>




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