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In the paper we present results to develop an irreducible theory of complex systems in terms of self-organization processes of prime integer relations. Based on the integers and controlled by arithmetic only the self-organization processes…

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This paper introduces the Furthest Hyperplane Problem (FHP), which is an unsupervised counterpart of Support Vector Machines. Given a set of n points in Rd, the objective is to produce the hyperplane (passing through the origin) which…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-02-06 Zohar Karnin , Edo Liberty , Shachar Lovett , Roy Schwartz , Omri Weinstein

It has been observed that the very important motion planning problem of robotics mathematically speaking boils down to the problem of finding a section to the path-space fibration, raising the notion of topological complexity, as introduced…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Eric Goubault , Michael Farber , Aurélien Sagnier

Otto's Theorem characterises the bisimulation-invariant PTIME queries over graphs as exactly those that can be formulated in the polyadic mu-calculus, hinging on the Immerman-Vardi Theorem which characterises PTIME (over ordered structures)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Florian Bruse , David Kronenberger , Martin Lange

Infinite time Turing machines extend the operation of ordinary Turing machines into transfinite ordinal time. By doing so, they provide a natural model of infinitary computability, a theoretical setting for the analysis of the power and…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel David Hamkins

We consider weighted structures, which extend ordinary relational structures by assigning weights, i.e. elements from a particular group or ring, to tuples present in the structure. We introduce an extension of first-order logic that allows…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Steffen van Bergerem , Nicole Schweikardt

In this paper we define future-time branching temporal logics evaluated over forests, that is, ordered tuples of ordered, but unranked, finite trees. We associate a rich class FL[$\mathcal{L}$] of temporal logics to each set L of (regular)…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Kitti Gelle , Szabolcs Ivan

The Fourier Transform is one of the most important linear transformations used in science and engineering. Cooley and Tukey's Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) from 1964 is a method for computing this transformation in time $O(n\log n)$. From a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Nir Ailon

Infinite time Turing machines extend the classical Turing machine concept to transfinite ordinal time, thereby providing a natural model of infinitary computability that sheds light on the power and limitations of supertask algorithms.

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel David Hamkins

The satisfiability problem for First-order Modal Logic (\FOML) is undecidable even for simple fragments like having only unary predicates, two variables etc. Recently a new way to identify decidable fragments of \FOML has been introduced…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Varad Joshi , Anantha Padmanabha

This paper presents efficient algorithms for testing the finite, polynomial, and exponential ambiguity of finite automata with $\epsilon$-transitions. It gives an algorithm for testing the exponential ambiguity of an automaton $A$ in time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-02-25 Cyril Allauzen , Mehryar Mohri , Ashish Rastogi

Hard instances of natural computational problems are often elusive. In this note we present an example of a natural decision problem, the word problem for a certain finitely presented group, whose hard instances are easy to find. More…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Robert H Gilman

In this work, we present a logical formalism for reasoning about quantum systems in finite dimension. Contrary to the usual approach in quantum logic, our formalism is based classical first-order logic, which allows us to use the tools of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Olivier Brunet

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

We study the collection of first-order logical schemata all of whose instances are theorems of a given theory $T$; we call these the validities of $T$ ($\mathsf{V}(T)$). It is easy to see that if $T$ is a decidable theory, then…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Denis R. Hirschfeldt , Henry Towsner , Scott Weinstein

Computational complexity is a core theory of computer science, which dictates the degree of difficulty of computation. There are many problems with high complexity that we have to deal, which is especially true for AI. This raises a big…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Chuyu Xiong

Researchers have long been aiming to understand how the characteristics of Quantum Theory and General Relativity combine to account for regimes in their interface. One reason why this is a hard task is how differently the theories approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Bruna Sahdo

This note discusses proofs for convergence of first-order methods based on simple potential-function arguments. We cover methods like gradient descent (for both smooth and non-smooth settings), mirror descent, and some accelerated variants.

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Nikhil Bansal , Anupam Gupta

We consider the machine covering problem for selfish related machines. For a constant number of machines, m, we show a monotone polynomial time approximation scheme (PTAS) with running time that is linear in the number of jobs. It uses a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Leah Epstein , Rob van Stee

The class of type-two basic feasible functionals ($\mathtt{BFF}_2$) is the analogue of $\mathtt{FP}$ (polynomial time functions) for type-2 functionals, that is, functionals that can take (first-order) functions as arguments.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Patrick Baillot , Ugo Dal Lago , Cynthia Kop , Deivid Vale