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In this paper we propose a new approach for developing a proof that P=NP. We propose to use a polynomial-time reduction of a NP-complete problem to Linear Programming. Earlier such attempts used polynomial-time transformation which is a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Malay Dutta , Anjana K. Mahanta

We complete the complexity classification by degree of minimizing a polynomial over the integer points in a polyhedron in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Previous work shows that optimizing a quadratic polynomial over the integer points in a polyhedral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-07 Alberto Del Pia , Robert Hildebrand , Robert Weismantel , Kevin Zemmer

We reveal a complexity chasm, separating the trinomial and tetranomial cases, for solving univariate sparse polynomial equations over certain local fields. First, for any fixed field $K\in\{\mathbb{Q}_2,\mathbb{Q}_3,\mathbb{Q}_5,\ldots\}$,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-08 J. Maurice Rojas , Yuyu Zhu

In this paper, we investigate Hamiltonian path problem in the context of split graphs, and produce a dichotomy result on the complexity of the problem. Our main result is a deep investigation of the structure of $K_{1,4}$-free split graphs…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-28 P. Renjith , N. Sadagopan

Characterizing the entanglement structure of ground states of local Hamiltonians is a fundamental problem in quantum information. In this work we study the computational complexity of this problem, given the Hamiltonian as input. Our main…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Adam Bouland , Chenyi Zhang , Zixin Zhou

In this paper, we present a polynomial-sized linear programming formulation of the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP). The proposed linear program is a network flow-based model. Hence, it provides for the solution of the QAP in polynomial…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Moustapha Diaby

The embedding is an essential step when calculating on the D-Wave machine. In this work we show the hardness of the embedding problem for both types of existing hardware, represented by the Chimera and the Pegasus graphs, containing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Elisabeth Lobe , Annette Lutz

In this work we consider the ground space connectivity problem for commuting local Hamiltonians. The ground space connectivity problem asks whether it is possible to go from one (efficiently preparable) state to another by applying a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-07-17 David Gosset , Jenish C. Mehta , Thomas Vidick

We consider the complexity of the local Hamiltonian problem in the context of fermionic Hamiltonians with $\mathcal N=2 $ supersymmetry and show that the problem remains $\mathsf{QMA}$-complete. Our main motivation for studying this is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Chris Cade , P. Marcos Crichigno

In this work, we study a variant of the local Hamiltonian problem where we restrict to Hamiltonians that live on a lattice and are invariant under translations and rotations of the lattice. In the one-dimensional case this problem is known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Jon Nelson , Daniel Gottesman

The subspace approximation problem Subspace($k$,$p$) asks for a $k$-dimensional linear subspace that fits a given set of points optimally, where the error for fitting is a generalization of the least squares fit and uses the $\ell_{p}$ norm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Amit Deshpande , Kasturi Varadarajan , Madhur Tulsiani , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

A central challenge in machine learning is to understand how noise or measurement errors affect low-rank approximations, particularly in the spectral norm. This question is especially important in differentially private low-rank…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Phuc Tran , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi , Van H. Vu

Quantum computing involving physical systems with continuous degrees of freedom, such as the quantum states of light, has recently attracted significant interest. However, a well-defined quantum complexity theory for these bosonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Ulysse Chabaud , Michael Joseph , Saeed Mehraban , Arsalan Motamedi

We study the complexity of the Local Hamiltonian Problem (denoted as LH-MIN) in the special case when a Hamiltonian obeys conditions of the Perron-Frobenius theorem: all off-diagonal matrix elements in the standard basis are real and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-25 Sergey Bravyi , David P. DiVincenzo , Roberto I. Oliveira , Barbara M. Terhal

We show that the two-dimensional (2D) local Hamiltonian problem with the constraint that the ground state obeys area laws is QMA-complete. We also prove similar results in 2D translation-invariant systems and for the 3D Heisenberg and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-03 Yichen Huang

We consider the problem of learning local quantum Hamiltonians given copies of their Gibbs state at a known inverse temperature, following Haah et al. [2108.04842] and Bakshi et al. [arXiv:2310.02243]. Our main technical contribution is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-09 Ales Wodecki , Jakub Marecek

We summarize recent results initiating spectral analysis on pseudo-Riemannian locally symmetric spaces $\Gamma \backslash G/H$, beyond the classical setting where $H$ is compact (e.g. theory of automorphic forms for arithmetic $\Gamma$) or…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Fanny Kassel , Toshiyuki Kobayashi

It is well known that the containment problem (as well as the equivalence problem) for semilinear sets is $\log$-complete in $\Pi_2^p$. It had been shown quite recently that already the containment problem for multi-dimensional linear sets…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Hans U. Simon

Recently it was shown that, for every fixed k>1, given a finite simply connected simplicial complex X, the kth homotopy group \pi_k(X) can be computed in time polynomial in the number n of simplices of X. We prove that this problem is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-04-30 Jiri Matousek

The decision problems of the existence of a Hamiltonian cycle or of a Hamiltonian path in a given graph, and of the existence of a truth assignment satisfying a given Boolean formula $C$, are well-known {\it NP}-complete problems. Here we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Olivier Hudry , Antoine Lobstein