There is a Hyper-Greedoid lurking behind every Graphical Accessible Computational Search Problem solvable in Polynomial Time: $P \not= NP$
Abstract
Consider , where is a connected, isthmus-less and labelled graph, and is the edge-set or the vertex-set of the graph . A Graphical Search Problem (GSP), denoted , consists of finding , where and satisfies the predicate in . The subset is a solution of the problem . A sub-solution of is a subset such that is not a solution of , but is a solution of the problem , where and is a contraction-minor of . Solutions and sub-solutions are the feasible sets of . Let be the family of all the feasible sets of . A Hyper-greedoid is a set system satisfying the following axioms. A1: Accessibility: if , there is an element such that A2: Augmentability: If is a sub-solution, there is a polynomial time function and there is a element such that . That is, every sub-solution can be augmented using a polynomial time algorithm akin to Edmond Augmenting Path Algorithm. Given a graph , the GSP MISP consists of finding an independent set of vertices of . MISP satisfies axioms A1 and A2. Using the P-completeness of the Decision Problem associated to MISP, we prove that every GSP that satisfies A1 is solvable in Polynomial Time if and only if it satisfies A2. On the other hand, let HCP be the GSP that consists of finding a Hamiltonian cycle of the graph . HCP satisfies A1, but does not satisfies A2. Since the Decision Problem associated with HCP is NP-Complete, we get .
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@article{arxiv.1802.03028,
title = {There is a Hyper-Greedoid lurking behind every Graphical Accessible Computational Search Problem solvable in Polynomial Time: $P \not= NP$},
author = {Koko-Kalambay Kalafan Kayibi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.03028},
year = {2025}
}