English

Almost Uniform Sampling of Independent Sets in Polynomial Time -- Implying NP=RP

Computational Complexity 2023-12-20 v1

Abstract

We prove the unexpected result that almost uniform sampling of independent sets in graphs is possible via a probabilistic polynomial time algorithm. Note that our sampling algorithm (if correct) has extremely surprising consequences; the most important one being no less than the unlikely collapse NP=RP.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2312.11838,
  title  = {Almost Uniform Sampling of Independent Sets in Polynomial Time -- Implying NP=RP},
  author = {Andras Farago},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.11838},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2008.00601