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An optical solution for the set splitting problem

Other Computer Science 2017-12-05 v1

Abstract

We describe here an optical device, based on time-delays, for solving the set splitting problem which is well-known NP-complete problem. The device has a graph-like structure and the light is traversing it from a start node to a destination node. All possible (potential) paths in the graph are generated and at the destination we will check which one satisfies completely the problem's constrains.

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@article{arxiv.1712.00651,
  title  = {An optical solution for the set splitting problem},
  author = {Mihai Oltean},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.00651},
  year   = {2017}
}

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10 pages, 2 figures

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