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As one of the three main pillars of fine-grained complexity theory, the 3SUM problem explains the hardness of many diverse polynomial-time problems via fine-grained reductions. Many of these reductions are either directly based on or…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Nick Fischer , Piotr Kaliciak , Adam Polak

Obtaining lower bounds for NP-hard problems has for a long time been an active area of research. Recent algebraic techniques introduced by Jonsson et al. (SODA 2013) show that the time complexity of the parameterized SAT($\cdot$) problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-06-13 Peter Jonsson , Victor Lagerkvist , Johannes Schmidt , Hannes Uppman

We provide a new approach for establishing hardness of approximation results, based on the theory recently introduced by the author. It allows one to directly show that approximating a problem beyond a certain threshold requires…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Ali Çivril

Some classical graph problems such as finding minimal spanning tree, shortest path or maximal flow can be done efficiently. We describe slight variations of such problems which are shown to be NP-complete. Our proofs use straightforward…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Per Alexandersson

This work explores the relationship between solution space and time complexity in the context of the $\textbf{P}$ vs. $\textbf{NP}$ problem, particularly through the lens of the sliding tile puzzle and root finding algorithms. We focus on…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Roy Burson

For some weighted $NP$-complete problems, checking whether a proposed solution is optimal is a non-trivial task. Such is the case for the celebrated traveling salesman problem, or the spin-glass problem in 3 dimensions. In this letter, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henri Orland , Michel Bauer

The Matrix Torsion Problem (MTP) is: given a square matrix M with rational entries, decide whether two distinct powers of M are equal. It has been shown by Cassaigne and the author that the MTP reduces to the Matrix Power Problem (MPP) in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-09-08 Francois Nicolas

We investigate the question whether Subset Sum can be solved by a polynomial-time algorithm with access to a certificate of length poly(k) where k is the maximal number of bits in an input number. In other words, can it be solved using only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Michał Włodarczyk

The (2+p)-Satisfiability (SAT) problem interpolates between different classes of complexity theory and is believed to be of basic interest in understanding the onset of typical case complexity in random combinatorics. In this paper, a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Remi Monasson , Riccardo Zecchina

Many complex questions in biology, physics, and mathematics can be mapped to the graph isomorphism problem and the closely related graph automorphism problem. In particular, these problems appear in the context of network visualization,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-14 Charo I. Del Genio , Thilo Gross

We present a polynomial time algorithm, which solves a nonstandard Variation of the well-known PARTITION-problem: Given positive integers $n, k$ and $t$ such that $t \geq n$ and $k \cdot t = {n+1 \choose 2}$, the algorithm partitions the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Alexander Büchel , Ulrich Gilleßen , Kurt-Ulrich Witt

There is a number of known NP class problems, and majority of them have been shown to be equivalent to others. In particular now it is clear that construction of a Gr\"{o}bner basis (or Buchberger algorithm) must be one of equivalent…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Maiia Bakhova

We give a direct polynomial-time reduction from parity games played over the configuration graphs of collapsible pushdown systems to safety games played over the same class of graphs. That a polynomial-time reduction would exist was known…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Matthew Hague , Roland Meyer , Sebastian Muskalla , Martin Zimmermann

Theoretical complexity is a vital subfield of computer science that enables us to mathematically investigate computation and answer many interesting queries about the nature of computational problems. It provides theoretical tools to assess…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Mohamed Ghanem , Dauod Siniora

We give new algorithms based on the sum-of-squares method for tensor decomposition. Our results improve the best known running times from quasi-polynomial to polynomial for several problems, including decomposing random overcomplete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Tengyu Ma , Jonathan Shi , David Steurer

We present an algorithm to solve a system of diagonal polynomial equations over finite fields when the number of variables is greater than some fixed polynomial of the number of equations whose degree depends only on the degree of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Gabor Ivanyos , Miklos Santha

We propose a novel approach for the development, analysis, and verification of reductions between NP-complete problems. This method uses the URSA system, a SAT-based constraint solver and incorporates features that distinguish it from…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Predrag Janičić

We provide an implicit characterization of polynomial time computation in terms of ordinary differential equations: we characterize the class $\operatorname{PTIME}$ of languages computable in polynomial time in terms of differential…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Olivier Bournez , Daniel S. Graça , Amaury Pouly

We study the problem of decomposing (clustering) a tree with respect to costs attributed to pairs of nodes, so as to minimize the sum of costs for those pairs of nodes that are in the same component (cluster). For the general case and for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Jan-Hendrik Lange , Bjoern Andres

In this paper, we present a polynomial-sized linear programming formulation of the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP). The proposed linear program is a network flow-based model. Hence, it provides for the solution of the QAP in polynomial…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Moustapha Diaby