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In this note we introduce a notion of a generically (strongly generically) NP-complete problem and show that the randomized bounded version of the halting problem is strongly generically NP-complete.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Alexei Miasnikov , Alexander Ushakov

One topic that is likely to attract an increasing amount of attention within the Knowledge-base systems research community is the coordination of information provided by multiple experts. We envision a situation in which several experts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Izhar Matzkevich , Bruce Abramson

In an article [3] published recently in this journal, it was shown that when k >= 3, the problem of deciding whether the distinguishing chromatic number of a graph is at most k is NP-hard. We consider the problem when k = 2. In regards to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-07-06 Elaine M. Eschen , Chinh T. Hoang , R. Sritharan , Lorna Stewart

Circular chromatic number, $\chi_c$ is a natural generalization of chromatic number. It is known that it is \NP-hard to determine whether or not an arbitrary graph $G$ satisfies $\chi(G) = \chi_c(G)$. In this paper we prove that this…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Hamed Hatami , Ruzbeh Tusserkani

For bipartite graphs the NP-completeness is proved for the problem of existence of maximum matching which removal leads to a graph with given lower(upper)bound for the cardinality of its maximum matching.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-03-08 R. R. Kamalian , V. V. Mkrtchyan

As a fundamental problem in many different fields, link prediction aims to estimate the likelihood of an existing link between two nodes based on the observed information. Since this problem is related to many applications ranging from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-01 Hao Liao , An Zeng , Yi-Cheng Zhang

A multi-crossing (or n-crossing) is a singular point in a projection at which n strands cross so that each strand bisects the crossing. We generalize the classic result of Kauffman, Murasugi, and Thistlethwaite, which gives the upper bound…

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

For a non-split multi-crossing diagram $D$ of a link $L$ we show that $\alpha(L)-2 \leq c_2(D) + \sum_{n> 2}(2n-4)c_n(D)$ holds. Here $\alpha(L)$ is the arc index and $c_n(D)$ is the number of $n$-crossings of $D$. This generalizes and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Tetsuya Ito

In this paper I give estimates for the minimal crossing number, leading to a short proof that the crossing number is additive for torus links. These estimates are applied to several classes of links. Finally, I prove a part of a conjecture…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hermann Gruber

We show that given a satisfiable instance of the 2-to-1 Label Cover problem, it is NP-hard to find a $(23/24 + \eps)$-satisfying assignment.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-04-26 Per Austrin , Ryan O'Donnell , John Wright

In graph realization problems one is given a degree sequence and the task is to decide whether there is a graph whose vertex degrees match to the given sequence. This realization problem is known to be polynomial-time solvable when the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-01-18 Sepp Hartung , André Nichterlein

In this paper, we tabulate the set of alternating pretzel links. Specifically, for any given crossing number $c$, we derive a closed formula that would allow us to compute $\mathcal{P}(c)$, the total number of alternating pretzel links with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Charlotte Aspinwall , Tobias Clark , Yuanan Diao

The classical knot recognition problem is the problem of determining whether the virtual knot represented by a given diagram is classical. We prove that this problem is in NP, and we give an exponential time algorithm for the problem.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Kazuhiro Ichihara , Yuya Nishimura , Seiichi Tani

Some examples are easier for humans to classify than others. The same should be true for deep neural networks (DNNs). We use the term example perplexity to refer to the level of difficulty of classifying an example. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Nevin L. Zhang , Weiyan Xie , Zhi Lin , Guanfang Dong , Xiao-Hui Li , Caleb Chen Cao , Yunpeng Wang

Properties of graphs that can be characterized by the spectrum of the adjacency matrix of the graph have been studied systematically recently. Motivated by the complexity of these properties, we show that there are such properties for which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Omid Etesami , Willem H. Haemers

In the present paper we extend the definition of slice-torus invariant to links. We prove a few properties of the newly-defined slice-torus link invariants: the behaviour under crossing change, a slice genus bound, an obstruction to strong…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Alberto Cavallo , Carlo Collari

In this paper we compute the sharp lower bounds for the crossing number of $n$-string $k$-loop essential tangles. For essential tangles with only string components, we characterise the ones with the minimum crossing number for a given…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-30 João Miguel Nogueira , António Salgueiro

In 2011, Harrigan and Healy published a polynomial-time algorithm for one-sided crossing minimization for trees. We point out a counterexample to that algorithm, and show that one-sided crossing minimization is NP-hard for trees.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Alexander Dobler

Entity-linking is a natural-language-processing task that consists in identifying the entities mentioned in a piece of text, linking each to an appropriate item in some knowledge base; when the knowledge base is Wikipedia, the problem comes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-31 Roi Blanco , Paolo Boldi , Andrea Marino