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This paper explores the finiteness of the solution set of the polynomial complementarity problem (PCP). To achieve this goal, we introduce two new classes of structured tensor tuples, namely the nondegenerate tensor tuple and the strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Sonali Sharma , V. Vetrivel

Crossing minimization is one of the central problems in graph drawing. Recently, there has been an increased interest in the problem of minimizing crossings between paths in drawings of graphs. This is the metro-line crossing minimization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-19 Martin Fink , Sergey Pupyrev

In this work, we study the discrete logarithm problem in the context of TFNP - the complexity class of search problems with a syntactically guaranteed existence of a solution for all instances. Our main results establish that suitable…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Pavel Hubáček , Jan Václavek

Based on smoothing techniques, we propose two new methods to solve linear complementarity problems (LCP) called TLCP and Soft-Max. The idea of these two new methods takes inspiration from interior-point methods in optimization. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 El Hassene Osmani , Mounir Haddou , Lina Abdallah , Naceurdine Bensalem

A linear program with linear complementarity constraints (LPCC) requires the minimization of a linear objective over a set of linear constraints together with additional linear complementarity constraints. This class has emerged as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Bin Yu , John E. Mitchell , Jong-Shi Pang

We prove the #P-hardness of the counting problems associated with various satisfiability, graph and combinatorial problems, when restricted to planar instances. These problems include \begin{romannum} \item[{}] {\sc 3Sat, 1-3Sat, 1-Ex3Sat,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Harry B. Hunt , Madhav V. Marathe , Venkatesh Radhakrishnan , Richard E. Stearns

This manuscript explores novel complexity results for the feasibility problem over $p$-order cones, extending the foundational work of Porkolab and Khachiyan. By leveraging the intrinsic structure of $p$-order cones, we derive refined…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Víctor Blanco , Victor Magron , Miguel Martínez-Antón

Polynomial optimization problems represent a wide class of optimization problems, with a large number of real-world applications. Current approaches for polynomial optimization, such as the sum of squares (SOS) method, rely on large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Dimitris Bertsimas , Dick den Hertog , Thodoris Koukouvinos

Optimization is fundamental in many areas of science, from computer science and information theory to engineering and statistical physics, as well as to biology or social sciences. It typically involves a large number of variables and a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-08 Lenka Zdeborová

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

Understanding the power of space-bounded computation with access to catalytic space has been an important theme in complexity theory over the recent years. One of the key algorithmic results in this area is that bipartite maximum matching…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Srijan Chakraborty , Samir Datta , Aryan Kusre , Partha Mukhopadhyay , Amit Sinhababu

Recent research revealed the existence of gaps in the complexity landscape of locally checkable labeling (LCL) problems in the LOCAL model of distributed computing. For example, the deterministic round complexity of any LCL problem on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Yi-Jun Chang

The Restricted Shortest Path (RSP) problem, also known as the Delay-Constrained Least-Cost (DCLC) problem, is an NP-hard bicriteria optimization problem on graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. In a graph where each edge is assigned a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-05 David Holzmüller

We investigate the space complexity of certain perfect matching problems over bipartite graphs embedded on surfaces of constant genus (orientable or non-orientable). We show that the problems of deciding whether such graphs have (1) a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-04-29 Samir Datta , Raghav Kulkarni , Raghunath Tewari , N. V. Vinodchandran

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

We study the complexity of computational problems arising from existence theorems in extremal combinatorics. For some of these problems, a solution is guaranteed to exist based on an iterated application of the Pigeonhole Principle. This…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Amol Pasarkar , Mihalis Yannakakis , Christos Papadimitriou

The Minimum Dominating Set (MDS) problem is a well-established combinatorial optimization problem with numerous real-world applications. Its NP-hard nature makes it increasingly difficult to obtain exact solutions as the graph size grows.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Enqiang Zhu , Qiqi Bao , Yu Zhang , Pu Wu , Chanjuan Liu

In the classical longest palindromic substring (LPS) problem, we are given a string $S$ of length $n$, and the task is to output a longest palindromic substring in $S$. Gilbert, Hajiaghayi, Saleh, and Seddighin [SPAA 2023] showed how to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Solon P. Pissis

In this paper, we study a class of approximation problems, appearing in data approximation and signal processing. The approximations are constructed as combinations of polynomial splines (piecewise polynomials), whose parameters are subject…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Zahra Roshan Zamir , Nadezda Sukhorukova

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