English
Related papers

Related papers: A Collapsible Polynomial Hierarchy for Promise Pro…

200 papers

Multi-homogeneous polynomial systems arise in many applications. We provide bit complexity estimates for solving them which, up to a few extra other factors, are quadratic in the number of solutions and linear in the height of the input…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Mohab Safey El Din , Eric Schost

We prove several new results concerning the pure quantum polynomial hierarchy (pureQPH). First, we show that QMA(2) is contained in pureQSigma2, that is, two unentangled existential provers can be simulated by competing existential and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Sabee Grewal , Dorian Rudolph

Downward translation of equality refers to cases where a collapse of some pair of complexity classes would induce a collapse of some other pair of complexity classes that (a priori) one expects are smaller. Recently, the first downward…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Edith Hemaspaandra , Lane A. Hemaspaandra , Harald Hempel

Korten and Pitassi (FOCS, 2024) defined a new complexity class $L_2^P$ as the polynomial-time Turing closure of the Linear Ordering Principle. They put it between $MA$ (Merlin--Arthur protocols) and $S_2^P$ (the second symmetric level of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Edward A. Hirsch , Ilya Volkovich

We study the computational complexity of fundamental problems over the $p$-adic numbers ${\mathbb Q}_p$ and the $p$-adic integers ${\mathbb Z}_p$. Gu\'epin, Haase, and Worrell proved that checking satisfiability of systems of linear…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Arno Fehm , Manuel Bodirsky

We propose one possible generalization of the KP hierarchy, which possesses multi bi--hamiltonian structures, and can be viewed as several KP hierarchies coupled together.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 C. S. Xiong

This work considers polynomial optimization problems where the objective admits a low-rank canonical polyadic tensor decomposition. We introduce LRPOP (low-rank polynomial optimization), a new hierarchy of semidefinite programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Llorenç Balada Gaggioli , Didier Henrion , Milan Korda

Hemaspaandra, Hempel, and Wechsung [cs.CC/9909020] initiated the field of query order, which studies the ways in which computational power is affected by the order in which information sources are accessed. The present paper studies, for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Edith Hemaspaandra , Lane A. Hemaspaandra , Harald Hempel

In this paper we propose a totally serious algorithm to solve NP problems in polynomial time provided one is willing to wager the fate of all observers in the universe on the many-world interpretation of quantum theory being correct.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Veronika Baumann , Alberto Rolandi

We use the powerful tools of counting complexity and generic oracles to help understand the limitations of the complexity of quantum computation. We show several results for the probabilistic quantum class BQP. 1. BQP is low for PP, i.e.,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Lance Fortnow , John D. Rogers

The Acceptance Probability Estimation Problem (APEP) is to additively approximate the acceptance probability of a Boolean circuit. This problem admits a probabilistic approximation scheme. A central question is whether we can design a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Peter Dixon , A. Pavan , N. V. Vinodchandran

In this manuscript, assuming that Graedel's 1991 results are correct (which implies that bounds on the solution values for optimization problems can be expressed in existential second order logic where the first order part is universal…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Prabhu Manyem

We present an algorithm to solve a system of diagonal polynomial equations over finite fields when the number of variables is greater than some fixed polynomial of the number of equations whose degree depends only on the degree of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Gabor Ivanyos , Miklos Santha

Large complexity classes, like the exponential time hierarchy, received little attention in terms of finding complete problems. In this work a generalization of propositional logic is investigated which fills this gap with the introduction…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Martin Lück

We consider the average-case complexity of some otherwise undecidable or open Diophantine problems. More precisely, consider the following: (I) Given a polynomial f in Z[v,x,y], decide the sentence \exists v \forall x \exists y f(v,x,y)=0,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-20 J. Maurice Rojas

Many natural optimization problems derived from $\sf NP$ admit bilevel and multilevel extensions in which decisions are made sequentially by multiple players with conflicting objectives, as in interdiction, adversarial selection, and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Christoph Grüne , Berit Johannes , James B. Orlin , Lasse Wulf

In this article, we investigate the arithmetical hierarchy from the perspective of realizability theory. An experimental observation in classical computability theory is that the notion of degrees of unsolvability for natural arithmetical…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Takayuki Kihara

Diagonalization in the spirit of Cantor's diagonal arguments is a widely used tool in theoretical computer sciences to obtain structural results about computational problems and complexity classes by indirect proofs. The Uniform…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Friederike Anna Dziemba

We propose a new algorithm for Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problems PCSPs). It is a combination of the $\textbf{C}$onstraint Basic $\textbf{L}$P relaxation and the $\textbf{A}$ffine I$\textbf{P}$ relaxation (CLAP). We give a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Lorenzo Ciardo , Stanislav Živný

We perform a refined complexity-theoretic analysis of three classical problems in the context of Hierarchical Task Network Planning: the verification of a provided plan, whether an executable plan exists, and whether a given state can be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Cornelius Brand , Robert Ganian , Fionn Mc Inerney , Simon Wietheger