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This paper explores the Boolean Satisfiability Problem (SAT) in the context of Kolmogorov complexity theory. We present three versions of the distinguishability problem-Boolean formulas, Turing machines, and quantum systems-each focused on…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Feng Pan

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

The Kolmogorov complexity of x, denoted C(x), is the length of the shortest program that generates x. For such a simple definition, Kolmogorov complexity has a rich and deep theory, as well as applications to a wide variety of topics…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Stephen Fenner , Lance Fortnow

The amount of information in satisfiability problem (SAT) is considered. SAT can be polynomial-time solvable when the solving algorithm holds an exponential amount of information. It is also established that SAT Kolmogorov complexity is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Maciej Drozdowski

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving is a fundamental problem in computer science. Finding efficient algorithms for SAT solving has broad implications in many areas of computer science and beyond. Quantum SAT solvers have been proposed in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Shang-Wei Lin , Tzu-Fan Wang , Yean-Ru Chen , Zhe Hou , David Sanán , Yon Shin Teo

The basic problem of semantic compression is to minimize the length of a message while preserving its meaning. This differs from classical notions of compression in that the distortion is not measured directly at the level of bits, but…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-03-04 Tankut Can

In this manuscript, we derive the principle of conservation of computational complexity. We measure computational complexity as the number of binary computations (decisions) required to solve a problem. Every problem then defines a unique…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Gerald Friedland , Alfredo Metere

We show that classical and quantum Kolmogorov complexity of binary strings agree up to an additive constant. Both complexities are defined as the minimal length of any (classical resp. quantum) computer program that outputs the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-09 Markus Mueller

Due to M\"{u}ller's theorem, the Kolmogorov complexity of a string was shown to be equal to its quantum Kolmogorov complexity. Thus there are no benefits to using quantum mechanics to compress classical information. The quantitative amount…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Samuel Epstein

Real-world data often comes in compressed form. Analyzing compressed data directly (without decompressing it) can save space and time by orders of magnitude. In this work, we focus on fundamental sequence comparison problems and try to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Arun Ganesh , Tomasz Kociumaka , Andrea Lincoln , Barna Saha

Drawing on various notions from theoretical computer science, we present a novel numerical approach, motivated by the notion of algorithmic probability, to the problem of approximating the Kolmogorov-Chaitin complexity of short strings. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Fernando Soler-Toscano , Hector Zenil , Jean-Paul Delahaye , Nicolas Gauvrit

In complexity theory, there exists a famous unsolved problem whether NP can be P or not. In this paper, we discuss this aspect in SAT (satisfiability) problem, and it is shown that the SAT can be solved in plynomial time by means of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masanori Ohya , Natsuki Masuda

First we consider pair-wise distances for literal objects consisting of finite binary files. These files are taken to contain all of their meaning, like genomes or books. The distances are based on compression of the objects concerned,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-21 Paul M. B. Vitanyi

We consider a quantum version of the famous low-rank approximation problem. Specifically, we consider the distance $D(\rho,\sigma)$ between two normalized quantum states, $\rho$ and $\sigma$, where the rank of $\sigma$ is constrained to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-04 Nic Ezzell , Zoë Holmes , Patrick J. Coles

Satisfiability (SAT) is a central problem in computer science, and advances in SAT-solving algorithms have a far-reaching impact across many fields. Recent works have proposed quantum SAT solvers based on Grover's algorithm, a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Shang-Wei Lin , Ji-Qing Yan , Yean-Ru Chen , Zhe Hou , David Sanán

A new class of distances appropriate for measuring similarity relations between sequences, say one type of similarity per distance, is studied. We propose a new ``normalized information distance'', based on the noncomputable notion of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Ming Li , Xin Chen , Xin Li , Bin Ma , Paul Vitanyi

In computational complexity theory, a decision problem is NP-complete when it is both in NP and NP-hard. Although a solution to a NP-complete can be verified quickly, there is no known algorithm to solve it in polynomial time. There exists…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Wenxia Guo , Jin Wang , Majun He , Xiaoqin Ren , Wenhong Tian , Qingxian Wang

This paper gives a novel approach to analyze SAT problem more deeply. First, I define new elements of Boolean formula such as dominant variable, decision chain, and chain coupler. Through the analysis of the SAT problem using the elements,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Keum-Bae Cho

Propositional satisfiability (SAT) is one of the most fundamental problems in computer science. The worst-case hardness of SAT lies at the core of computational complexity theory. The average-case analysis of SAT has triggered the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Tobias Friedrich , Anton Krohmer , Ralf Rothenberger , Thomas Sauerwald , Andrew M. Sutton

We define the problem segment cover as follows. We are given a set of pairs of sub-intervals of the unit interval. The problem asks if there is a choice of a single interval from each pair such that the union of the chosen intervals covers…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Sharareh Alipour , Salman Parsa
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