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This is the latest in a series of articles aimed at exploring the relationship between the complexity classes of P and NP. In the previous papers, we have proved that the sat CNF problem is polynomially reduced to the problem of finding a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Stepan G. Margaryan

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

In this note, we polynomially reduce an instance of the partition problem to a dynamic lot sizing problem, and show that solving the latter problem solves the former problem. By solving the dynamic program formulation of the dynamic lot…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Chee-Khian Sim

Many search-based quantum algorithms that achieve a theoretical speedup are not practically relevant since they require extraordinarily long coherence times, or lack the parallelizability of their classical counterparts.This raises the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-24 Vahideh Eshaghian , Sören Wilkening , Johan Åberg , David Gross

The assumed computationally difficulty of factoring large integers forms the basis of security for RSA public-key cryptography, which specifically relies on products of two large primes or semi-primes. The best-known factoring algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Michele Mosca , Sebastian R. Verschoor

In this paper we explore fundamental concepts in computational complexity theory and the boundaries of algorithmic decidability. We examine the relationship between complexity classes \textbf{P} and \textbf{NP}, where $L \in \textbf{P}$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Duaa Abdullah , Jasem Hamoud

Satisfiability of Boolean circuits is among the most known and important problems in theoretical computer science. This problem is NP-complete in general but becomes polynomial time when restricted either to monotone gates or linear gates.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Paweł M. Idziak , Jacek Krzaczkowski

Finding a quantum computing method to solve nondeterministic polynomial time (NP)-complete problems is currently of paramount importance in quantum information science. Here an experiment is presented to demonstrate the use of Rydberg atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Seokho Jeong , Minhyuk Kim , Minki Hhan , Jaewook Ahn

Boolean satisfiability [1] (k-SAT) is one of the most studied optimization problems, as an efficient (that is, polynomial-time) solution to k-SAT (for $k\geq 3$) implies efficient solutions to a large number of hard optimization problems…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-08-03 Maria Ercsey-Ravasz , Zoltan Toroczkai

Number partitioning is one of the classical NP-hard problems of combinatorial optimization. It has applications in areas like public key encryption and task scheduling. The random version of number partitioning has an "easy-hard" phase…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephan Mertens

The number partition problem is a well-known problem, which is one of 21 Karp's NP-complete problems \cite{karp}. The partition function is a boolean function that is equivalent to the number partition problem with number range restricted.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-25 Chuyu Xiong

The partition problem is a well-known basic NP-complete problem. We mainly consider the optimization version of it in this paper. The problem has been investigated from various perspectives for a long time and can be solved efficiently in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Susumu Kubo

Several continuous dynamical systems have recently been proposed as special-purpose analog computers designed to solve combinatorial optimization problems such as $k$-SAT or the Ising problem. While combinatorial optimization problems are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-17 Clemens Gneiting , Farad Khoyratee , Enrico Rinaldi , Khyati Jain , Rishab Khincha , Franco Nori

In this paper two algorithms solving circuit satisfiability problem over supernilpotent algebras are presented. The first one is deterministic and is faster than fastest previous algorithm presented by Aichinger. The second one is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Piotr Kawałek , Jacek Krzaczkowski

Satisfiability-based verification techniques, leveraging modern Boolean satisfiability (SAT) and Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers, have demonstrated efficacy in addressing practical problem instances within program analysis.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Markus Krahl , Matthias Güdemann , Stefan Wallentowitz

Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems are NP-hard problems and many real-world problems can be formulated as QUBO. Currently there are no algorithms known that can solve arbitrary instances of NP-hard problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Christian Münch , Fritz Schinkel , Sebastian Zielinski , Stefan Walter

Our computers today, from sophisticated servers to small smartphones, operate based on the same computing model, which requires running a sequence of discrete instructions, specified as an algorithm. This sequential computing paradigm has…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Seyed Mousavi

In the last decade, public and industrial research funding has moved quantum computing from the early promises of Shor's algorithm through experiments to the era of noisy intermediate scale quantum devices (NISQ) for solving real-world…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Rhonda Au-Yeung , Nicholas Chancellor , Pascal Halffmann

We present a novel application of the Kramers-Wannier duality on one of the most important problems of computer science, the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT). More specifically, we focus on sharp-SAT or equivalently #SAT - the problem…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-10 Joe Mitchell , Benjamin Hsu , Victor Galitski

Our research deals with the optimization version of the set partition problem, where the objective is to minimize the absolute difference between the sums of the two disjoint partitions. Although this problem is known to be NP-hard and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu