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TR06-025 | 19th January 2006
Leonid Gurvits

Hyperbolic Polynomials Approach to Van der Waerden/Schrijver-Valiant like Conjectures :\\ Sharper Bounds , Simpler Proofs and Algorithmic Applications

Let $p(x_1,...,x_n) = p(X) , X \in R^{n}$ be a homogeneous polynomial of degree $n$ in $n$ real variables ,
$e = (1,1,..,1) \in R^n$ be a vector of all ones . Such polynomial $p$ is
called $e$-hyperbolic if for all real vectors $X \in R^{n}$ the univariate polynomial
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TR06-024 | 18th February 2006
Harry Burhman, Lance Fortnow, Michal Koucky, John Rogers, Nikolay Vereshchagin

Inverting onto functions might not be hard

The class TFNP, defined by Megiddo and Papadimitriou, consists of
multivalued functions with values that are polynomially verifiable
and guaranteed to exist. Do we have evidence that such functions are
hard, for example, if TFNP is computable in polynomial-time does
this imply the polynomial-time hierarchy collapses?

We give a relativized ... more >>>


TR06-023 | 7th February 2006
Xi Chen, Xiaotie Deng, Shang-Hua Teng

Computing Nash Equilibria: Approximation and Smoothed Complexity

By proving that the problem of computing a $1/n^{\Theta(1)}$-approximate Nash equilibrium remains \textbf{PPAD}-complete, we show that the BIMATRIX game is not likely to have a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme. In other words, no algorithm with time polynomial in $n$ and $1/\epsilon$ can compute an $\epsilon$-approximate Nash equilibrium of an $n\times ... more >>>



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