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A surface embedded in space, in such a way that each point has a neighborhood within which the surface is a terrain, projects to an immersed surface in the plane, the boundary of which is a self-intersecting curve. Under what circumstances…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-06-11 David Eppstein , Elena Mumford

A graph $G$ is a circle graph if it is an intersection graph of chords of a unit circle. We give an algorithm that takes as input an $n$ vertex circle graph $G$, runs in time at most $n^{O(\log n)}$ and finds a proper $3$-coloring of $G$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ajaykrishnan E S , Robert Ganian , Daniel Lokshtanov , Vaishali Surianarayanan

In this paper, we present a deterministic algorithm to find a strong generic position for an algebraic space curve. We modify our existing algorithm for computing the topology of an algebraic space curve and analyze the bit complexity of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Kai Jin , Jin-San Cheng

We study approximation algorithms for variants of the \emph{median string} problem, which asks for a string that minimizes the sum of edit distances from a given set of $m$ strings of length $n$. Only the straightforward $2$-approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Diptarka Chakraborty , Debarati Das , Robert Krauthgamer

In the paper we define three new complexity classes for Turing Machine undecidable problems inspired by the famous Cook/Levin's NP-complete complexity class for intractable problems. These are U-complete (Universal complete), D-complete…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Eugene Eberbach

We introduce and study the problem of optimizing arbitrary functions over degree sequences of hypergraphs and multihypergraphs. We show that over multihypergraphs the problem can be solved in polynomial time. For hypergraphs, we show that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Antoine Deza , Asaf Levin , Syed M. Meesum , Shmuel Onn

We consider a robust variant of the classical $k$-median problem, introduced by Anthony et al. \cite{AnthonyGGN10}. In the \emph{Robust $k$-Median problem}, we are given an $n$-vertex metric space $(V,d)$ and $m$ client sets $\set{S_i…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-19 Sayan Bhattacharya , Parinya Chalermsook , Kurt Mehlhorn , Adrian Neumann

I am going to provide a new technique of approximating area under the curve, using the Newton-Raphson Method. I am also going to provide a formula that would help us approximate any Definite Integral or help us find the area under the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Treanungkur Mal

An efficient quantum algorithm is proposed to solve in polynomial time the parity problem, one of the hardest problems both in conventional quantum computation and in classical computation, on NMR quantum computers. It is based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xijia Miao

In this paper, we give a fast algorithm for the computation of the Arf closure of an algebroid curve with more than one branch, generalizing an algorithm presented by Arslan and Sahin for the algebroid branch case.

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Nicola Maugeri , Giuseppe Zito

This is the third in a series of papers in which we study the n-Selmer group of an elliptic curve, with the aim of representing its elements as curves of degree n in P^{n-1}. The methods we describe are practical in the case n=3 for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-03 John Cremona , Tom Fisher , Cathy O'Neil , Denis Simon , Michael Stoll

We study the computational complexity of some explainable clustering problems in the framework proposed by [Dasgupta et al., ICML 2020], where explainability is achieved via axis-aligned decision trees. We consider the $k$-means,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Eduardo Sany Laber

The recently introduced problem of extending partial interval representations asks, for an interval graph with some intervals pre-drawn by the input, whether the partial representation can be extended to a representation of the entire…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Pavel Klavík , Jan Kratochvíl , Yota Otachi , Ignaz Rutter , Toshiki Saitoh , Maria Saumell , Tomáš Vyskočil

An algorithm is given to compute a normal form for hyperelliptic curves. The elliptic case has been treated in a previous paper. In this paper the hyperelliptic case is treated.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mark van Hoeij

A new method to solve computationally challenging (random) parametric obstacle problems is developed and analyzed, where the parameters can influence the related partial differential equation (PDE) and determine the position and surface…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Martin Eigel , Cosmas Heiß , Janina E. Schütte

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

In this work, we study the trade-off between the running time of approximation algorithms and their approximation guarantees. By leveraging a structure of the `hard' instances of the Arora-Rao-Vazirani lemma [JACM'09], we show that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Pasin Manurangsi , Luca Trevisan

In this paper, we investigate the complexity of the central path of semidefinite optimization through the lens of real algebraic geometry. To that end, we propose an algorithm to compute real univariate representations describing the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Saugata Basu , Ali Mohammad-Nezhad

We describe a polynomial-time algorithm to compute a (tight) geodesic between two curves in the curve graph. As well as enabling us to compute the distance between a pair of curves, this has several applications to mapping classes. For…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Mark C. Bell , Richard C. H. Webb

We consider very natural "fence enclosure" problems studied by Capoyleas, Rote, and Woeginger and Arkin, Khuller, and Mitchell in the early 90s. Given a set $S$ of $n$ points in the plane, we aim at finding a set of closed curves such that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Anna Adamaszek , Karl Bringmann , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Mehran Mehr , Eva Rotenberg , Alan Roytman , Mikkel Thorup