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Physical modeling closes the gap between perception in terms of measurements and abstraction in terms of theoretical models. Physical modeling is a major objective in physics and is generally regarded as a creative process. How good are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Cyril Stark

The question of whether the complexity class P is equal to the complexity class NP has been a seemingly intractable problem for over 4 decades. It has been clear that if an algorithm existed that would solve the problems in the NP class in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Jason W. Steinmetz

The simulation hypothesis says that all the materials and events in the reality (including the universe, our body, our thinking, walking and etc) are computations, and the reality is a computer simulation program like a video game. All…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Rasoul Ramezanian

Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) are essential measuring devices for monitoring, control and protection of power systems. The objective of the optimal PMU placement (OPP) problem is to minimize the number of PMUs and select the bus locations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Nikolaos Theodorakatos , Nikolaos Manousakis , George Korres

In this work, we use large language models (LLMs) to augment and accelerate research on the P versus NP problem, one of the most important open problems in theoretical computer science and mathematics. Specifically, we propose Socratic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Qingxiu Dong , Li Dong , Ke Xu , Guangyan Zhou , Yaru Hao , Zhifang Sui , Furu Wei

We lay the foundations of a new theory for algorithms and computational complexity by parameterizing the instances of a computational problem as a moduli scheme. Considering the geometry of the scheme associated to 3-SAT, we separate P and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Ali Çivril

Schindler recently addressed two versions of the question P $\stackrel{?}{=}$ NP for Turing machines running in transfinite ordinal time. These versions differ in their definition of input length. The corresponding complexity classes are…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vinay Deolalikar

The complexity class NP is quintessential and ubiquitous in theoretical computer science. Two different approaches have been made to define "Quantum NP," the quantum analogue of NP: NQP by Adleman, DeMarrais, and Huang, and QMA by Knill,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomoyuki Yamakami

P vs NP problem is the most important unresolved problem in the field of computational complexity. Its impact has penetrated into all aspects of algorithm design, especially in the field of cryptography. The security of cryptographic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Gao Ming

The $P$ versus $NP$ problem is still unsolved. But there are several oracles with $P$ unequal $NP$ relative to them. Here we will prove, that $P\not=NP$ relative to a $P$-complete oracle. In this paper, we use padding arguments as the proof…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Reiner Czerwinski

Computational complexity theory contains a corpus of theorems and conjectures regarding the time a Turing machine will need to solve certain types of problems as a function of the input size. Nature {\em need not} be a Turing machine and,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Javier Rodriguez-Laguna , Silvia N. Santalla

This article presents counter examples for three articles claiming that P=NP. Articles for which it applies are: Moustapha Diaby "P = NP: Linear programming formulation of the traveling salesman problem" and "Equality of complexity classes…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Radoslaw Hofman

Memcomputing is a novel non-Turing paradigm of computation that uses interacting memory cells (memprocessors for short) to store and process information on the same physical platform. It was recently proved mathematically that memcomputing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-07-09 Fabio L. Traversa , Chiara Ramella , Fabrizio Bonani , Massimiliano Di Ventra

In recent years, the nuclear norm minimization (NNM) problem has been attracting much attention in computer vision and machine learning. The NNM problem is capitalized on its convexity and it can be solved efficiently. The standard nuclear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-26 Qi Xie , Deyu Meng , Shuhang Gu , Lei Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Xiangchu Feng , Zongben Xu

A P-matrix is a square matrix $X$ such that all principal submatrices of $X$ have positive determinant. Such matrices appear naturally in instances of the linear complementarity problem, where these are precisely the matrices for which the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Spencer Gordon , Kevin Shu

Neural retrieval models (NRMs) have been shown to outperform their statistical counterparts owing to their ability to capture semantic meaning via dense document representations. These models, however, suffer from poor interpretability as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Michael Llordes , Debasis Ganguly , Sumit Bhatia , Chirag Agarwal

The new model of quantum computation is proposed, for which an effective algorithm of solving any task in NP is described. The work is based and inspired be the Grover's algorithm for solving NP-tasks with quadratic speedup compared to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-12-10 Sergey Sysoev

The quest for quantum computers is motivated by their potential for solving problems that defy existing, classical, computers. The theory of computational complexity, one of the crown jewels of computer science, provides a rigorous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-10 C. R. Laumann , R. Moessner , A. Scardicchio , S. L. Sondhi

This article describes a Turing machine which can solve for $\beta^{'}$ which is RE-complete. RE-complete problems are proven to be undecidable by Turing's accepted proof on the Entscheidungsproblem. Thus, constructing a machine which…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Mark Inman

We survey results on the formalization and independence of mathematical statements related to major open problems in computational complexity theory. Our primary focus is on recent findings concerning the (un)provability of complexity…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Igor C. Oliveira
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