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The Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem lies at the core of many applications in combinatorial optimization, software verification, cryptography, and machine learning. While state-of-the-art solvers have demonstrated high efficiency in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zhiwei Zhang , Samy Wu Fung , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Stanley Osher , Moshe Y. Vardi

We formulate the $N$ soliton solution of the Wadati-Konno-Ichikawa equation that is determined by purely algebraic equations. Derivation is based on the matrix Riemann-Hilbert problem. We give examples of one soliton solution that include…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-08-02 Hsiao-Fan Liu , Yusuke Shimabukuro

This paper analyzes the structure of the set of nodal solutions of a class of one-dimensional superlinear indefinite boundary values problems with an indefinite weight functions in front of the spectral parameter. Quite astonishingly, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-21 Martin Fencl , Julián López-Gómez

The polynomial hierarchy plays a central role in classical complexity theory. Here, we define a quantum generalization of the polynomial hierarchy, and initiate its study. We show that not only are there natural complete problems for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 Sevag Gharibian , Julia Kempe

We study parameterized Constraint Satisfaction Problem for infinite constraint languages. The parameters that we study are weight of the satisfying assignment, number of constraints, maximum number of occurrences of a variable in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Ruhollah Majdoddin

NP-Complete problems have an important attribute that if one NP-Complete problem can be solved in polynomial time, all NP-Complete problems will have a polynomial solution. The 3-CNF-SAT problem is a NP-Complete problem and the primary…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Belal Qasemi

In recent years, finding new satisfiability algorithms for various circuit classes has been a very active line of research. Despite considerable progress, we are still far away from a definite answer on which circuit classes allow fast…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-06-19 Stefan Schneider

We construct a reduction which proves that the fooling set number and the determinantal rank of a Boolean matrix are NP-hard to compute.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-06 Yaroslav Shitov

This paper tackles the problem of the existence of solutions for recursive systems of Horn clauses with second-order variables interpreted as integer relations, and harnessed by quantifier-free difference bounds arithmetic. We start by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Radu Iosif

We define the problem segment cover as follows. We are given a set of pairs of sub-intervals of the unit interval. The problem asks if there is a choice of a single interval from each pair such that the union of the chosen intervals covers…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Sharareh Alipour , Salman Parsa

We consider the following problem. Given a 2-CNF formula, is it possible to remove at most $k$ clauses so that the resulting 2-CNF formula is satisfiable? This problem is known to different research communities in Theoretical Computer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-04-18 Igor Razgon , Barry O'Sullivan

We introduce bindings that enable the convenient, efficient, and reliable use of software modules of CGAL (Computational Geometry Algorithm Library), which are written in C++, from within code written in Python. There are different tools…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Nir Goren , Efi Fogel , Dan Halperin

For typical first-order logical theories, satisfying assignments have a straightforward finite representation that can directly serve as a certificate that a given assignment satisfies the given formula. For non-linear real arithmetic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Enrico Lipparini , Stefan Ratschan

In this paper we study the hardness of the syndrome decoding problem over finite rings endowed with the Lee metric. We first prove that the decisional version of the problem is NP-complete, by a reduction from the $3$-dimensional matching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Violetta Weger , Karan Khathuria , Anna-Lena Horlemann , Massimo Battaglioni , Paolo Santini , Edoardo Persichetti

We study several decision problems for counter systems with guards defined by convex polyhedra and updates defined by affine transformations. In general, the reachability problem is undecidable for such systems. Decidability can be achieved…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Radu Iosif , Arnaud Sangnier

The relationship between the complexity classes P and NP is an unsolved question in the field of theoretical computer science. In this paper, we investigate a descriptor approach based on lattice properties. This paper proposes a new way to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Marcel Rémon , Johan Barthélemy

Given the emergent reasoning abilities of large language models, information retrieval is becoming more complex. Rather than just retrieve a document, modern information retrieval systems advertise that they can synthesize an answer based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Gregory Coppola

Classical approach of solvability problem has shed much light on what we can solve and what we cannot solve mathematically. Starting with quadratic equation, we know that we can solve it by the quadratic formula which uses square root.…

Geophysics · Physics 2012-12-07 August Lau , Chuan Yin

We study the satisfiability of randomly generated formulas formed by $M$ clauses of exactly $K$ literals over $N$ Boolean variables. For a given value of $N$ the problem is known to be most difficult with $\alpha=M/N$ close to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 A. Braunstein , M. Mezard , R. Zecchina

We show that the CNF satisfiability problem can be solved $O^*(1.2226^m)$ time, where $m$ is the number of clauses in the formula, improving the known upper bounds $O^*(1.234^m)$ given by Yamamoto 15 years ago and $O^*(1.239^m)$ given by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Huairui Chu , Mingyu Xiao , Zhe Zhang