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By the MAXSAT problem, we are given a set $V$ of $m$ variables and a collection $C$ of $n$ clauses over $V$, i.e., a conjunctive normal form ($\textit{CNF}$) formula. We will seek a truth assignment to maximize the number of satisfied…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yangjun Chen

This paper analyzes to what extent it is possible to efficiently reduce the number of clauses in NP-hard satisfiability problems, without changing the answer. Upper and lower bounds are established using the concept of kernelization.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Bart M. P. Jansen , Astrid Pieterse

We show that the CNF satisfiability problem (SAT) can be solved in time $O^*(1.1199^{(d-2)n})$, where $d$ is either the maximum number of occurrences of any variable or the average number of occurrences of all variables if no variable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Sanjay Jain , Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Frank Stephan

A canonical result about satisfiability theory is that the 2-SAT problem can be solved in linear time, despite the NP-hardness of the 3-SAT problem. In the quantum 2-SAT problem, we are given a family of 2-qubit projectors $\Pi_{ij}$ on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Itai Arad , Miklos Santha , Aarthi Sundaram , Shengyu Zhang

Reducing the conditions under which a given set satisfies the stipulations of the subset sum proposition to a set of linear relationships, the question of whether a set satisfies subset sum may be answered in a polynomial number of steps by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Aubrey Alston

Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) models many important intractable NP-hard problems such as propositional satisfiability problem (SAT). Algorithms with non-trivial upper bounds on running time for restricted SAT with bounded clause…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-01-22 Liang Li , Xin Li , Tian Liu , Ke Xu

Ordinary approach to quantum algorithm is based on quantum Turing machine or quantum circuits. It is known that this approach is not powerful enough to solve NP-complete problems. In this paper we study a new approach to quantum algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Masanori Ohya , Igor V. Volovich

A polynomial algorithm is obtained for the NP-complete linear ordering problem.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Givi Bolotashvili

A quantum algorithm is proposed to solve the Satisfiability problems by the ground-state quantum computer. The scale of the energy gap of the ground-state quantum computer is analyzed for the 3-bit Exact Cover problem. The time cost of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wenjin Mao

There are errors in the algorithm proposed by Narendra Chaudhari [2] purporting to solve the 3-sat problem in polynomial time. The present paper present instances for which the algorithm outputs erroneous results.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-12-13 Ritesh Vispute

We prove that P = NP implies #P = FP by exploiting the topological structure of 3SAT solution spaces. The argument proceeds via a dichotomy: any polynomial-time algorithm for 3SAT either operates without global knowledge of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-24 M. Alasli

We present a simple randomized algorithm that approximates the number of satisfying assignments of Boolean formulas in conjunctive normal form. To the best of our knowledge this is the first algorithm which approximates #k-SAT for any k >=…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-12 Marc Thurley

Previously, all known variants of the Quantum Satisfiability (QSAT) problem, i.e. deciding whether a $k$-local ($k$-body) Hamiltonian is frustration-free, could be classified as being either in $\mathsf{P}$; or complete for $\mathsf{NP}$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Ricardo Rivera Cardoso , Alex Meiburg , Daniel Nagaj

The aim of this short note is mainly pedagogical. It summarizes some knowledge about Boolean satisfiability (SAT) and the P=NP? problem in an elementary mathematical language. A convenient scheme to visualize and manipulate CNF formulae is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-08-15 Bernd R. Schuh

Quantum satisfiability is a constraint satisfaction problem that generalizes classical boolean satisfiability. In the quantum k-SAT problem, each constraint is specified by a k-local projector and is satisfied by any state in its nullspace.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-21 David Gosset , Daniel Nagaj

We study the Boolean Satisfiability problem (SAT) in the framework of diversity, where one asks for multiple solutions that are mutually far apart (i.e., sufficiently dissimilar from each other) for a suitable notion of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Neeldhara Misra , Harshil Mittal , Ashutosh Rai

The computational complexity of solving random 3-Satisfiability (3-SAT) problems is investigated. 3-SAT is a representative example of hard computational tasks; it consists in knowing whether a set of alpha N randomly drawn logical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Simona Cocco , Remi Monasson

The following paper proposes a new approach to determine whether a logical (CNF) formula is satisfiable or not using probability theory methods. Furthermore, we will introduce an algorithm that speeds up the standard solution for (CNF-SAT)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Hazem J. Alkhatib , Majd N. Bohssas , Rawad H. Hatem , Odey N. Kassam Alhennawi

Several fragments of the satisfiability problem have been studied in the literature. Among these, Linear 3-SAT is a satisfaction problem in which each clause (viewed as a set of literals) intersects with at most one other clause; moreover,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Victorien Desbois , Ocan Sankur , François Schwarzentruber

Quantum computation holds promise for the solution of many intractable problems. However, since many quantum algorithms are stochastic in nature they can only find the solution of hard problems probabilistically. Thus the efficiency of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sebastian Maurer , Tad Hogg , Bernardo Huberman
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