English
Related papers

Related papers: The Existential Theory of the Reals as a Complexit…

200 papers

We show that the recognition problem for penny graphs (contact graphs of unit disks in the plane) is $\exists\mathbb{R}$-complete, that is, computationally as hard as the existential theory of the reals, even if a combinatorial plane…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Anna Lubiw , Marcus Schaefer

Nondeterministic polynomial-time Blum-Shub-Smale Machines over the reals give rise to a discrete complexity class between NP and PSPACE. Several problems, mostly from real algebraic geometry / polynomial systems, have been shown complete…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-09-06 Christian Herrmann , Johanna Sokoli , Martin Ziegler

The Simulation Argument has gained significant traction in the public arena. It has offered a hypothesis based on probabilistic analysis of its assumptions that we are likely to exist within a computer simulation. This has been derived from…

Popular Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Hutan Ashrafian

We develop a notion of computability and complexity of functions over the reals, which seems to be very natural when one tries to determine just how "difficult" a certain function is. This notion can be viewed as an extension of both BSS…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mark Braverman

Theoretical complexity is a vital subfield of computer science that enables us to mathematically investigate computation and answer many interesting queries about the nature of computational problems. It provides theoretical tools to assess…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Mohamed Ghanem , Dauod Siniora

Given a neural network, training data, and a threshold, it was known that it is NP-hard to find weights for the neural network such that the total error is below the threshold. We determine the algorithmic complexity of this fundamental…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Linda Kleist , Tillmann Miltzow

It is almost always easier to find an accurate-but-complex model than an accurate-yet-simple model. Finding optimal, sparse, accurate models of various forms (linear models with integer coefficients, decision sets, rule lists, decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Lesia Semenova , Cynthia Rudin , Ronald Parr

Although the Turing-machine model of computation is widely used in computer science it is fundamentally inadequate as a foundation for the theory of modern scientific computation. The real-number model is described as an alternative.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. F. Traub

Existentially closed groups are, informally, groups that contain solutions to every consistent finite system of equations and inequations. They were introduced in 1951 in an algebraic context and subsequent research elucidated deep…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-04-18 I Scott

A continuous constraint satisfaction problem (CCSP) is a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) with an interval domain $U \subset \mathbb{R}$. We engage in a systematic study to classify CCSPs that are complete of the Existential Theory of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Tillmann Miltzow , Reinier F. Schmiermann

We study algorithmic problems that belong to the complexity class of the existential theory of the reals (ER). A problem is ER-complete if it is as hard as the problem ETR and if it can be written as an ETR formula. Traditionally, these…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Jeff Erickson , Ivor van der Hoog , Tillmann Miltzow

The quasi-variational inequalities play a significant role in analyzing a wide range of real-world problems. However, these problems are more complicated to solve than variational inequalities as the constraint set is based on the current…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Asrifa Sultana , Shivani Valecha

Using the notion of existentially closed structures, we obtain embedding theorems for groups and Lie algebras. We also prove the existence of some groups and Lie algebras with prescribed properties.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-07 M. Shahryari

Visibility graph of a polygon corresponds to its internal diagonals and boundary edges. For each vertex on the boundary of the polygon, we have a vertex in this graph and if two vertices of the polygon see each other there is an edge…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Hossein Boomari , Mojtaba Ostovari , Alireza Zarei

There is a problem with the foundations of classical mathematics, and potentially even with the foundations of computer science, that mathematicians have by-and-large ignored. This essay is a call for practicing mathematicians who have been…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Jonathan Lenchner

A graph $G$ with vertex set $\{v_1,v_2,\ldots,v_n\}$ is an intersection graph of segments if there are segments $s_1,\ldots,s_n$ in the plane such that $s_i$ and $s_j$ have a common point if and only if $\{v_i,v_j\}$ is an edge of~$G$. In…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-06-11 Jiri Matousek

This paper illustrates the richness of the concept of regular sets of time bounds and demonstrates its application to problems of computational complexity. There is a universe of bounds whose regular subsets allow to represent several time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Armin Hemmerling

We explain how recent developments in the fields of realisability models for linear logic -- or geometry of interaction -- and implicit computational complexity can lead to a new approach of implicit computational complexity. This…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-03 Thomas Seiller

This is the first of a series of papers in which we study deep computations (ultracomputations) and deep iterates, formalizing the ideas of "asymptotic limit" of computations and compositional iterates, respectively. In this first paper of…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Samson Alva , Eduardo Dueñez , Jose Iovino , Claire Walton

In part I we reduced the arithmetic (characteristic zero) version of the P \not \subseteq NP conjecture to the problem of showing that a variety associated with the complexity class NP cannot be embedded in the variety associated the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ketan D Mulmuley , Milind Sohoni