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There have been many attempts to solve the P versus NP problem. However, with a new proof method, P not equal NP can be proved. A time limit is set for an arbitrary Turing machine and an input word is rejected on a timeout. The time limit…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Reiner Czerwinski

We introduce extension-based proofs, a class of impossibility proofs that includes valency arguments. They are modelled as an interaction between a prover and a protocol. Using proofs based on combinatorial topology, it has been shown that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Dan Alistarh , James Aspnes , Faith Ellen , Rati Gelashvili , Leqi Zhu

We show that the Kth largest subset problem and the Kth largest m-tuple problem are in PP and hard for PP under polynomial-time Turing reductions. Several problems from the literature were previously shown NP-hard via reductions from those…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Christoph Haase , Stefan Kiefer

Neglecting many motivating details for the Park-Pham theorem (previously known as the Kahn-Kalai conjecture), the result starts with a finite set $X$, a non-trivial upper set $\mathcal{F} \subseteq 2^X$, and a particular parameterized…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Bryce Alan Christopherson , Darian Colgrove

We address the problem of testing weak optimality of a given solution of a given interval linear program. The problem was recently wrongly stated to be polynomially solvable. We disprove it. We show that the problem is NP-hard in general.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Miroslav Rada , Milan Hladík , Elif Garajová

It is shown that there is a possibility of violation of CPT symmetry in the Standard Model which does not contradict to the famous CPT theorem. To check this possibility experimentally it is necessary to increase the precision of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-02 S. A. Larin

The $P$ versus $NP$ problem is still unsolved. But there are several oracles with $P$ unequal $NP$ relative to them. Here we will prove, that $P\not=NP$ relative to a $P$-complete oracle. In this paper, we use padding arguments as the proof…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Reiner Czerwinski

We propose a new weak convergence theorem for martingales, under gentler conditions than the usual convergence in probability of the sequence of associated quadratic variations. Its proof requires the combined use of Skorohod's…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Bruno Rémillard , Jean Vaillancourt

Given a small polygon S, a big simple polygon B and a positive integer k, it is shown to be NP-hard to determine whether k copies of the small polygon (allowing translation and rotation) can be placed in the big polygon without overlap.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-09-25 Sarah R. Allen , John Iacono

Let $G$ be a real reductive Lie group, $L$ a compact subgroup, and $\pi$ an irreducible admissible representation of $G$. In this article we prove a necessary and sufficient condition for the finiteness of the multiplicities of $L$-types…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Toshiyuki Kobayashi

We prove a limit theorem for quantum stochastic differential equations with unbounded coefficients which extends the Trotter-Kato theorem for contraction semigroups. From this theorem, general results on the convergence of approximations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-05-08 Luc Bouten , Ramon van Handel , Andrew Silberfarb

This paper introduces new notions of asymptotic proofs, PT(polynomial-time)-extensions, PTM(polynomial-time Turing machine)-omega-consistency, etc. on formal theories of arithmetic including PA (Peano Arithmetic). This paper shows that P…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tatsuaki Okamoto , Ryo Kashima

As a generalization of Hausdorff's extension theorem of metrics, we prove an interpolation theorem of a family of metrics defined on closed subsets of metrizable spaces. As an application, we investigate typicality of subsets of moduli…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Yoshito Ishiki

The first version of this paper gave another proof of the Kropholler Conjecture, which gives a relative version of Stallings Ends Theorem, following an earlier incorrect proof. It has been pointed out by Sam Shepherd that the the second…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-27 M. J. Dunwoody

Pudl\'ak [Pud17] lists several major conjectures from the field of proof complexity and asks for oracles that separate corresponding relativized conjectures. Among these conjectures are: - $\mathsf{DisjNP}$: The class of all disjoint…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Titus Dose

We consider the problem of existence of bound entangled states with non-positive partial transpose (NPT). As one knows, existence of such states would in particular imply nonadditivity of distillable entanglement. Moreover it would rule out…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-09 Łukasz Pankowski , Marco Piani , Michał Horodecki , Paweł Horodecki

It is a well-known result that bilevel linear optimization is NP-hard. In many publications, reformulations as mixed-integer linear optimization problems are proposed, which suggests that the decision version of the problem belongs to NP.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Christoph Buchheim

Provan and Billera introduced notions of (weak) decomposability of simplicial complexes as a means of attempting to prove polynomial upper bounds on the diameter of the facet-ridge graph of a simplicial polytope. Recently, De Loera and Klee…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Nicolai Hähnle , Steven Klee , Vincent Pilaud

Approximations to the Kruskal-Katona theorem are stated and proven. These approximations are weaker than the theorem, but much easier to work with numerically.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-10-13 Andrew Frohmader

The poset of permutations of [n] under Bruhat ordering is studied. We give nontrivial upper and lower bounds for the number of comparable pairs of permutations in both the weak and strong versions of this order. In light of numerical…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Adam Hammett , Boris Pittel