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This paper presents a deterministic algorithmic approach of exploring the solution space of the Subset Sum Problem. The algorithm presented is input-robust and structurally adaptive. Exploration is guided and narrows into areas in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Thami Nkosi

Parametric linear systems are linear systems of equations in which some symbolic parameters, that is, symbols that are not considered to be candidates for elimination or solution in the course of analyzing the problem, appear in the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Robert M. Corless , Mark Giesbrecht , Leili Rafiee Sevyeri , B. David Saunders

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

By creating some new concepts and methods: checking tree, long unit path, direct contradiction unit pair, indirect contradiction unit pair, additional contradiction unit pair, 2-unit layer and 3-unit layer, redundant units, and destroying…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Lizhi Du

Any satisfiability problem in conjunctive normal form can be solved in polynomial time by reducing it to a 3-sat formulation and transforming this to a Linear Complementarity problem (LCP) which is then solved as a linear program (LP). Any…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Giacomo Patrizi

Many natural combinatorial problems can be expressed as constraint satisfaction problems. This class of problems is known to be NP-complete in general, but certain restrictions on the form of the constraints can ensure tractability. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Dmitriy Zhuk

The reviewed paper describes an analog device that empirically solves small instances of the NP-complete Subset Sum Problem (SSP). The authors claim that this device can solve the SSP in polynomial time using polynomial space, in principle,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-04-23 Igor L. Markov

Sumsets are central objects in additive combinatorics. In 2007, Granville asked whether one can efficiently recognize whether a given set $S$ is a sumset, i.e. whether there is a set $A$ such that $A+A=S$. Granville suggested an algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Amir Abboud , Nick Fischer , Ron Safier , Nathan Wallheimer

In a previous paper, we have shown that any Boolean formula can be encoded as a linear programming problem in the framework of Bayesian probability theory. When applied to NP-complete algorithms, this leads to the fundamental conclusion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-21 Michel Feldmann

This paper discloses a simple algorithm for encrypting text messages, based on the NP-completeness of the subset sum problem, such that the similarity between encryptions is roughly proportional to the semantic similarity between their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-08-16 Nicholas Kersting

In this paper, we provide a deterministic polynomial time algorithm that determines satisfiability of 3-SAT. The complexity analysis for the algorithm takes into account no efficiency and yet provides a low enough bound, that efficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Ortho Flint , Asanka Wickramasinghe , Jason Brasse , Christopher Fowler

By considering a discrete tape where each cell corresponds to an integer, thus to a possible sum, a pseudo-polynomial solution can be given to subset sum problem, which is an NP-complete problem and a cornerstone application for this study,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Yigit Oktar

The purpose of this article is to examine and limit the conditions in which the P complexity class could be equivalent to the NP complexity class. Proof is provided by demonstrating that as the number of clauses in a NP-complete problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-09-07 Jerrald Meek

Non-linear polynomial systems over finite fields are used to model functional behavior of cryptosystems, with applications in system security, computer cryptography, and post-quantum cryptography. Solving polynomial systems is also one of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Thomas Hader , Daniela Kaufmann , Laura Kovács

In the Subset Sum problem we are given a set of $n$ positive integers $X$ and a target $t$ and are asked whether some subset of $X$ sums to $t$. Natural parameters for this problem that have been studied in the literature are $n$ and $t$ as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Karl Bringmann , Philip Wellnitz

A sum-of-squares is a polynomial that can be expressed as a sum of squares of other polynomials. Determining if a sum-of-squares decomposition exists for a given polynomial is equivalent to a linear matrix inequality feasibility problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-07 Peter Seiler , Qian Zheng , Gary Balas

In this paper we propose a new approach for developing a proof that P=NP. We propose to use a polynomial-time reduction of a NP-complete problem to Linear Programming. Earlier such attempts used polynomial-time transformation which is a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Malay Dutta , Anjana K. Mahanta

Decision of whether a Boolean equation system has a solution is an NPC problem and finding a solution is NP hard. In this paper, we present a quantum algorithm to decide whether a Boolean equation system FS has a solution and compute one if…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Yu-Ao Chen , Xiao-Shan Gao

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

Subset Sum is a classical optimization problem taught to undergraduates as an example of an NP-hard problem, which is amenable to dynamic programming, yielding polynomial running time if the input numbers are relatively small. Formally,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Konstantinos Koiliaris , Chao Xu