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Towards Geometry-Preserving Reductions Between Constraint Satisfaction Problems (and other problems in NP)

Computational Complexity 2024-11-19 v1 Artificial Intelligence Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Motivated by phase transitions in combinatorial optimization problems, we define two kinds of geometry-preserving reductions between constraint satisfaction problems and other NP-search problems. We give a couple of examples and counterexamples for these reductions.

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@article{arxiv.2411.10453,
  title  = {Towards Geometry-Preserving Reductions Between Constraint Satisfaction Problems (and other problems in NP)},
  author = {Gabriel Istrate},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.10453},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

In Proceedings FROM 2024, arXiv:2410.23020. An extended version is under preparation and will also be posted on arXiv

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