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Graph isomorphism, subgraph isomorphism, and maximum common subgraphs are classical well-investigated objects. Their (parameterized) complexity and efficiently tractable cases have been studied. In the present paper, for a given set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Dieter Rautenbach , Florian Werner

In this article, we study the complexity of the upgrading version of the maximal covering location problem with edge length modifications on networks. This problem is NP-hard on general networks. However, in some particular cases, we prove…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Marta Baldomero-Naranjo , Jörg Kalcsics , Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía

In this paper two related simplification problems for systems of linear inequalities describing precedence relation systems are considered. Given a precedence relation system, the first problem seeks a minimum subset of the precedence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Kin Cheong Sou

The maximum intersection problem for a matroid and a greedoid, given by polynomial-time oracles, is shown $NP$-hard by expressing the satisfiability of boolean formulas in 3-conjunctive normal form as such an intersection. The corresponding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Taneli Mielikäinen , Esko Ukkonen

We present a series of almost settled inapproximability results for three fundamental problems. The first in our series is the subexponential-time inapproximability of the maximum independent set problem, a question studied in the area of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-08-20 Parinya Chalermsook , Bundit Laekhanukit , Danupon Nanongkai

People solve different problems and know that some of them are simple, some are complex and some insoluble. The main goal of this work is to develop a mathematical theory of algorithmic complexity for problems. This theory is aimed at…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-07-08 Mark Burgin

The maximum graph bisection problem is a well known graph partition problem. The problem has been proven to be NP-hard. In the maximum graph bisection problem it is required that the set of vertices is divided into two partition with equal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Zoran Maksimovic

We show that the problem of finding a Resolution refutation that is at most polynomially longer than a shortest one is NP-hard. In the parlance of proof complexity, Resolution is not automatizable unless P = NP. Indeed, we show it is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Albert Atserias , Moritz Müller

We investigate the parameterized complexity of Maximum Exposure Problem (MEP). Given a range space (R, P) where R is the set of ranges containing a set P of points, and an integer k, MEP asks for k ranges which on removal results in the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Remi Raman , Shahin John J S , R Subashini , Subhasree Methirumangalath

We show that any submodular minimization (SM) problem defined on a linear constraint set with constraints having up to two variables per inequality, are 2-approximable in polynomial time. If the constraints are monotone (the two variables…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Dorit S. Hochbaum

The trust region subproblem with a fixed number m additional linear inequality constraints, denoted by (Tm), have drawn much attention recently. The question as to whether Problem (Tm) is in Class P or Class NP remains open. So far, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-06 Yong Hsia , Ruey-Lin Sheu

A generalization of recent group-theoretic matrix multiplication algorithms to an analogue of the theory of partial matrix multiplication is presented. We demonstrate that the added flexibility of this approach can in some cases improve…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-17 Richard Strong Bowen , Bo Chen , Hendrik Orem , Martijn van Schaardenburg

For a graph G with real weights assigned to the vertices (edges), the MAX H-SUBGRAPH problem is to find an H-subgraph of G with maximum total weight, if one exists. The all-pairs MAX H-SUBGRAPH problem is to find for every pair of vertices…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Virginia Vassilevska , Ryan Williams , Raphael Yuster

We develop a complexity theory for approximate real computations. We first produce a theory for exact computations but with condition numbers. The input size depends on a condition number, which is not assumed known by the machine. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Gregorio Malajovich , Mike Shub

We study the parameterized complexity of the following factorization problem: given elements $a,a_1, \ldots, a_m$ of a monoid and a parameter $k$, can $a$ be written as the product of at most (or exactly) $k$ elements from $a_1, \ldots,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Markus Lohrey , Andreas Rosowski

It is shown that the compressed word problem for an HNN-extension with base group H and finite associated subgroups is polynomial time Turing-reducible to the compressed word problem for H. An analogous result for amalgamated free products…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2008-11-21 Niko Haubold , Markus Lohrey

We address two sets of long-standing open questions in probability theory, from a computational complexity perspective: divisibility of stochastic maps, and divisibility and decomposability of probability distributions. We prove that finite…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Johannes Bausch , Toby Cubitt

We examine the computational complexity of testing and finding small plans in probabilistic planning domains with succinct representations. We find that many problems of interest are complete for a variety of complexity classes: NP, co-NP,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-08 Judy Goldsmith , Michael L. Littman , Martin Mundhenk

In this article, we study the problem of finding the longest common separable pattern between several permutations. We give a polynomial-time algorithm when the number of input permutations is fixed and show that the problem is NP-hard for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Mathilde Bouvel , Dominique Rossin , Stephane Vialette

This article presents a general solution to the problem of computational complexity. First, it gives a historical introduction to the problem since the revival of the foundational problems of mathematics at the end of the 19th century.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Rami Zaidan