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The computational complexity of the partition, 0-1 subset sum, unbounded subset sum, 0-1 knapsack and unbounded knapsack problems and their multiple variants were studied in numerous papers in the past where all the weights and profits were…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Dominik Wojtczak

Pudl\'ak [Pud17] lists several major conjectures from the field of proof complexity and asks for oracles that separate corresponding relativized conjectures. Among these conjectures are: - $\mathsf{DisjNP}$: The class of all disjoint…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Titus Dose

The algebraic dichotomy conjecture for Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) of reducts of (infinite) finitely bounded homogeneous structures states that such CSPs are polynomial-time tractable when the model-complete core of the template…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Manuel Bodirsky , Antoine Mottet , Miroslav Olšák , Jakub Opršal , Michael Pinsker , Ross Willard

\textsf{Holant} is an essential framework in the field of counting complexity. For over fifteen years, researchers have been clarifying the complexity classification for complex-valued \textsf{Holant} on the Boolean domain, a challenge that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Boning Meng , Juqiu Wang , Mingji Xia , Jiayi Zheng

One of the driving problems in the CSP area is the Dichotomy Conjecture, formulated in 1993 by Feder and Vardi [STOC'93], stating that for any fixed relational structure G the Constraint Satisfaction Problem CSP(G) is either NP--complete or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-11-13 Marek Cygan , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michal Pilipczuk , Jakub Onufry Wojtaszczyk

Cook and Reckhow 1979 pointed out that NP is not closed under complementation iff there is no propositional proof system that admits polynomial size proofs of all tautologies. Theory of proof complexity generators aims at constructing sets…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Jan Krajicek

We prove that the art gallery problem is equivalent under polynomial time reductions to deciding whether a system of polynomial equations over the real numbers has a solution. The art gallery problem is a classical problem in computational…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Anna Adamaszek , Tillmann Miltzow

Given a locally cartesian closed category E, a polynomial (s,p,t) may be defined as a diagram consisting of three arrows in E of a certain shape. In this paper we define the homogeneous and monomial terms comprising a polynomial (s,p,t) and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Charles Walker

We develop a new theory of strong subalgebras and linear congruences that are defined globally. Using this theory we provide a new proof of the correctness of Zhuk's algorithm for all tractable CSPs on a finite domain, and therefore a new…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Dmitriy Zhuk

In this paper, we prove that the numerical-semigroup-gap counting problem is #NP-complete as a main theorem. A numerical semigroup is an additive semigroup over the set of all nonnegative integers. A gap of a numerical semigroup is defined…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Shunichi Matsubara

We prove the #P-hardness of the counting problems associated with various satisfiability, graph and combinatorial problems, when restricted to planar instances. These problems include \begin{romannum} \item[{}] {\sc 3Sat, 1-3Sat, 1-Ex3Sat,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Harry B. Hunt , Madhav V. Marathe , Venkatesh Radhakrishnan , Richard E. Stearns

This article finds the answer to the question: for any problem from which a non-deterministic algorithm can be derived which verifies whether an answer is correct or not in polynomial time (complexity class NP), is it possible to create an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Daniel Cardona Delgado

Let gamma be a (not necessarily finite) structure with a finite relational signature. We prove that deciding whether a given existential positive sentence holds in gamma is in Logspace or complete for the class CSP(gamma)_NP under…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-01-13 Manuel Bodirsky , Miki Hermann , Florian Richoux

Stephen Cook posited SAT is NP-Complete in 1971. If SAT is NP-Complete then, as is generally accepted, any polynomial solution of it must also present a polynomial solution of all NP decision problems. It is here argued, however, that NP is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-11-30 C. Sauerbier

The problem of determining whether a graph $G$ contains another graph $H$ as a minor, referred to as the minor containment problem, is a fundamental problem in the field of graph algorithms. While it is NP-complete when $G$ and $H$ are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Tatsuya Gima , Soh Kumabe , Kazuhiro Kurita , Yuto Okada , Yota Otachi

In this paper we define a construct called a time-graph. A complete time-graph of order n is the cartesian product of a complete graph with n vertices and a linear graph with n vertices. A time-graph of order n is given by a subset of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-12-31 Malay Dutta

One fundamental question in the context of the geometric complexity theory approach to the VP vs. VNP conjecture is whether VP = $\overline{\textrm{VP}}$, where VP is the class of families of polynomials that are of polynomial degree and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Joshua A. Grochow , Ketan D. Mulmuley , Youming Qiao

The Schwartz-Zippel Lemma states that if a low-degree multivariate polynomial with coefficients in a field is not zero everywhere in the field, then it has few roots on every finite subcube of the field. This fundamental fact about…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Albert Atserias , Iddo Tzameret

We prove the conjectural correspondence between logarithmic Gromov-Witten theory and logarithmic Donaldson/Pandharipande-Thomas theory for pairs $(Y|\partial Y)$ consisting of a toric threefold $Y$ and any torus invariant divisor $\partial…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Davesh Maulik , Dhruv Ranganathan

In this paper the reason why entropy reduction (negentropy) can be used to measure the complexity of any computation was first elaborated both in the aspect of mathematics and informational physics. In the same time the equivalence of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Feng Pan