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We consider the Membership and the Half-Space Reachability problems for matrices in dimensions two and three. Our first main result is that the Membership Problem is decidable for finitely generated sub-semigroups of the Heisenberg group…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Thomas Colcombet , Joël Ouaknine , Pavel Semukhin , James Worrell

Planarity Testing is the problem of determining whether a given graph is planar while planar embedding is the corresponding construction problem. The bounded space complexity of these problems has been determined to be exactly Logspace by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Samir Datta , Gautam Prakriya

We consider "Thurston maps": branched self-coverings of the sphere with ultimately periodic critical points, and prove that the Thurston equivalence problem between them (continuous deformation of maps along with their critical orbits) is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Laurent Bartholdi , Dzmitry Dudko

We present a Rice-like complexity lower bound for any MSO-definable problem on binary structures succinctly encoded by circuits. This work extends the framework recently developed as a counterpoint to Courcelle's theorem for graphs encoded…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Colin Geniet , Aliénor Goubault-Larrecq , Kévin Perrot

A geometric argument is given to prove that the Seifert genus of a positive knot equals its slice genus. A combinatorial invariant, giving a lower bound for the slice genus, is formulated for arbitrary knots. Properties and applications of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-05-22 Vyacheslav Krushkal

Recently, many studies have been devoted to finding diverse solutions in classical combinatorial problems, such as Vertex Cover (Baste et al., IJCAI'20), Matching (Fomin et al., ISAAC'20) and Spanning Tree (Hanaka et al., AAAI'21). We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Mark de Berg , Andrés López Martínez , Frits Spieksma

We define a class of "algebraic" random matrices. These are random matrices for which the Stieltjes transform of the limiting eigenvalue distribution function is algebraic, i.e., it satisfies a (bivariate) polynomial equation. The Wigner…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-10-31 N. Raj Rao , Alan Edelman

We study the decision version of tensor spectral norm from the viewpoint of real algebraic complexity. For a rationally specified tensor, the tensor spectral threshold problem asks whether its spectral norm exceeds a prescribed rational…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Angshul Majumdar

To a finite group G one can associate a tower of wreath products S_n[G]. It is well known that the graded direct sum of the Grothendieck groups of the categories of finite dimensional complex representations of these groups can be given the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Seth Shelley-Abrahamson

Given a $G$-toric, folded-symplectic manifold with co-orientable folding hypersurface, we show that its orbit space is naturally a manifold with corners $W$ equipped with a smooth map $\psi: W \to \frak{g}^*$, where $\frak{g}^*$ is the dual…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-26 Daniel Hockensmith

Let $\Lambda$ be a finite dimensional algebra over an algebraically closed field. Criteria are given which characterize existence of a fine or coarse moduli space classifying, up to isomorphism, the representations of $\Lambda$ with fixed…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-11 Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann

In this article, we study $G$-covers of klt varieties, where $G$ is a reductive group. First, we exhibit an example of a klt singularity admitting a $\mathbb{P}{\rm GL}_n(\mathbb{K})$-cover that is not of klt type. Then, we restrict…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-20 Lukas Braun , Joaquín Moraga

We present a general method for converting any family of unsatisfiable CNF formulas that is hard for one of the simplest proof systems, tree resolution, into formulas that require large rank in any proof system that manipulates polynomials…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-12-04 Paul Beame , Trinh Huynh , Toniann Pitassi

The theory of Total Function NP (TFNP) and its subclasses says that, even if one is promised an efficiently verifiable proof exists for a problem, finding this proof can be intractable. Despite the success of the theory at showing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Marco Aldi , Sevag Gharibian , Dorian Rudolph

The paper presents an algebraic framework for optimization problems expressible as Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problems. Our results generalize the algebraic framework for the decision version (CSPs) provided by Bulatov et al. [SICOMP…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Marcin Kozik , Joanna Ochremiak

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

Since the seminal works of Strassen and Valiant it has been a central theme in algebraic complexity theory to understand the relative complexity of algebraic problems, that is, to understand which algebraic problems (be it bilinear maps…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Harm Derksen , Visu Makam , Jeroen Zuiddam

Cook and Reckhow 1979 pointed out that NP is not closed under complementation iff there is no propositional proof system that admits polynomial size proofs of all tautologies. Theory of proof complexity generators aims at constructing sets…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Jan Krajicek

The membership problem for an algebraic structure asks whether a given element is contained in some substructure, which is usually given by generators. In this work we study the membership problem, as well as the conjugacy problem, for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Lukas Fleischer , Florian Stober , Alexander Thumm , Armin Weiß

In (Kabanets, Impagliazzo, 2004) it is shown how to decide the circuit polynomial identity testing problem (CPIT) in deterministic subexponential time, assuming hardness of some explicit multilinear polynomial family for arithmetical…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-10-09 Maurice Jansen