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Given polynomial maps $f, g \colon \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}^n,$ we consider the {\em polynomial complementary problem} of finding a vector $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$ such that \begin{equation*} f(x) \ \ge \ 0, \quad g(x) \ \ge \ 0, \quad…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-02 Tien-Son Pham , Canh Hung Nguyen

In 2003, Atserias and Dalmau resolved a major open question about the resolution proof system by establishing that the space complexity of CNF formulas is always an upper bound on the width needed to refute them. Their proof is beautiful…

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Geoffrion's theorem is a fundamental result from mathematical programming assessing the quality of Lagrangian relaxation, a standard technique to get bounds for integer programs. An often implicit condition is that the set of feasible…

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The quest for quantum computers is motivated by their potential for solving problems that defy existing, classical, computers. The theory of computational complexity, one of the crown jewels of computer science, provides a rigorous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-10 C. R. Laumann , R. Moessner , A. Scardicchio , S. L. Sondhi

The classical sine-Gordon model is a two-dimensional integrable field theory, with particle like solutions the so-called solitons. Using its integrability one can define its quantum version without the process of canonical quantization.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Frigyes Nemes

The main thrust of our current work is to exploit very specific characteristics of a given problem in order to acquire improved compactness for supercritical problems and to prove existence of new types of solutions. To this end, we shall…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Craig Cowan , Abbas Moameni

Satisfiability Testing (SAT) techniques are well-established in classical computing where they are used to solve a broad variety of problems, e.g., in the design of classical circuits and systems. Analogous to the classical realm, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Lucas Berent , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

We develop a new algebraic technique that solves the following problem: Given a black box that contains an arithmetic circuit $f$ over a field of characteristic $2$ of degree~$d$. Decide whether $f$, expressed as an equivalent multivariate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-11 Hasan Abasi , Nader H. Bshouty

We propose a decision-theoretic framework for computational complexity, complementary to classical theory: moving from syntactic exactness (Turing / Shannon) to semantic simulability (Le Cam). While classical theory classifies problems by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Deniz Akdemir

In this paper, we prove well-posedness in $C^1(\mathbb{R})$ (a.k.a. classical solutions) of the Fornberg-Whitham equation. To achieve this objective, we study its weak formulation under a Lagrangian framework. Applying the fundamental…

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In this note, we provide a unifying framework to investigate the computational complexity of classical spin models and give the full classification on spin models in terms of system dimensions, randomness, external magnetic fields and types…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-11-12 Shi-Xin Zhang

In this paper we investigate computational properties of the Diophantine problem for spherical equations in some classes of finite groups. We classify the complexity of different variations of the problem, e.g., when $G$ is fixed and when…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Caroline Mattes , Alexander Ushakov , Armin Weiß

Typical-case computation complexity is a research topic at the boundary of computer science, applied mathematics, and statistical physics. In the last twenty years the replica-symmetry-breaking mean field theory of spin glasses and the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-06-17 Jin-Hua Zhao , Hai-Jun Zhou

The fastest quantum algorithms (for the solution of classical computational tasks) known so far are basically variations of the hidden subgroup problem with {$f(U[x])=f(x)$}. Following a discussion regarding which tasks might be solved…

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Let $V$ be a vector space over a finite field $k$. We give a condition on a subset $A \subset V$ that allows for a local criterion for checking when a function $f:A \to k$ is a restriction of a polynomial function of degree $<m$ on $V$. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-05 David Kazhdan , Tamar Ziegler

The \emph{sum-of-squares (SoS) complexity} of a $d$-multiquadratic polynomial $f$ (quadratic in each of $d$ blocks of $n$ variables) is the minimum $s$ such that $f = \sum_{i=1}^s g_i^2$ with each $g_i$ $d$-multilinear. In the case $d=2$,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Benjamin Rossman , Davidson Zhu

To determine if two lists of numbers are the same set, we sort both lists and see if we get the same result. The sorted list is a canonical form for the equivalence relation of set equality. Other canonical forms arise in graph isomorphism…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-06-30 Lance Fortnow , Joshua A. Grochow

The simple concept of a SIC poses a very deep problem in algebraic number theory, as soon as the dimension of Hilbert space exceeds three. A detailed description of the simplest possible example is given.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Ingemar Bengtsson

In this paper, we show how a construction of an implicit complexity model can be implemented using concepts coming from the core of von Neumann algebras. Namely, our aim is to gain an understanding of classical computation in terms of the…

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