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Computing the number of realizations of a minimally rigid graph is a notoriously difficult problem. Towards this goal, for graphs that are minimally rigid in the plane, we take advantage of a recently published algorithm, which is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-12 Georg Grasegger , Christoph Koutschan , Elias Tsigaridas

It is known a method for converting a system of Boolean polynomial equations to a single Boolean polynomial equation with less variables. In this paper, we show a formula for systems of Boolean polynomial equations which is based on the…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Tomoya Machide

We extend Nielsen's formulation of quantum circuit complexity to include intrinsically non-invertible operations. Such gates arise from fusion with topological defect operators and remove a basic limitation of symmetry-based circuits: the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-15 Saskia Demulder

Circuit lower bounds are important since it is believed that a super-polynomial circuit lower bound for a problem in NP implies that P!=NP. Razborov has proved superpolynomial lower bounds for monotone circuits by using method of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Boyu Sima

Boolean-width is a recently introduced graph parameter. Many problems are fixed parameter tractable when parametrized by boolean-width, for instance "Minimum Weighted Dominating Set" (MWDS) problem can be solved in $O^*(2^{3k})$ time given…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-07-11 Rémy Belmonte , Martin Vatshelle

Rigid graph theory is an active area with many open problems, especially regarding embeddings in $\mathbb{R}^d$ or other manifolds, and tight upper bounds on their number for a given number of vertices. Our premise is to relate the number…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Evangelos Bartzos , Ioannis Z. Emiris , Josef Schicho

We prove that any $n$-node graph $G$ with diameter $D$ admits shortcuts with congestion $O(\delta D \log n)$ and dilation $O(\delta D)$, where $\delta$ is the maximum edge-density of any minor of $G$. Our proof is simple, elementary, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Mohsen Ghaffari , Bernhard Haeupler

In this paper we extend to non-compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary the use of two important tools in the geometric analysis of compact spaces, namely, the weak maximum principle for subharmonic functions and the integration by parts.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-10 Debora Impera , Stefano Pigola , Alberto G. Setti

The limited connectivity of current and next-generation quantum annealers motivates the need for efficient graph-minor embedding methods. These methods allow non-native problems to be adapted to the target annealer's architecture. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Arman Zaribafiyan , Dominic J. J. Marchand , Seyed Saeed Changiz Rezaei

This paper studies the hazard-free formula complexity of Boolean functions. Our first result shows that unate functions are the only Boolean functions for which the monotone formula complexity of the hazard-derivative equals the hazard-free…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Leah London Arazi , Amir Shpilka

Circuit polynomials are polynomials satisfying a number of conditions that make it easy to compute sharp and certifiable global lower bounds for them. Consequently, one may use them to find certifiable lower bounds for any polynomial by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Dávid Papp

In arXiv:1710.08163 a generalization of Boolean circuits to arbitrary finite algebras had been introduced and applied to sketch P versus NP-complete borderline for circuits satisfiability over algebras from congruence modular varieties.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Paweł M. Idziak , Piotr Kawałek , Jacek Krzaczkowski

We present a braided circuit topology framework for investigating topology and structural phase transitions in aggregates of semiflexible polymers. In the conventional approach to circuit topology, which specifically applies to single…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-27 Jonas Berx , Alireza Mashaghi

We study the interplay between spectrum, geometry and boundary conditions for two distinguished self-adjoint realisations of the Laplacian on infinite metric graphs, the so-called riedrichs and Neumann extensions. We introduce a new…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Marco Düfel , James B. Kennedy , Delio Mugnolo , Marvin Plümer , Matthias Täufer

In this paper, we propose a regular vine copula based methodology for the fusion of correlated decisions. Regular vine copula is an extremely flexible and powerful graphical model to characterize complex dependence among multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-27 Shan Zhang , Lakshmi Narasimhan Theagarajan , Sora Choi , Pramod K. Varshney

Random instances of feedforward Boolean circuits are studied both analytically and numerically. Evaluating these circuits is known to be a P-complete problem and thus, in the worst case, believed to be impossible to perform, even given a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-07-25 Jon Machta , Simon DeDeo , Stephan Mertens , Cristopher Moore

We introduce a new conjecture on the computational hardness of detecting random lifts of graphs: we claim that there is no polynomial-time algorithm that can distinguish between a large random $d$-regular graph and a large random lift of a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Dmitriy Kunisky , Xifan Yu

In this paper, we study combinatorial properties of stable curves. To the dual graph of any nodal curve, it is naturally associated a group, which is the group of components of the N\'eron model of the generalized Jacobian of the curve. We…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Simone Busonero , Margarida Melo , Lidia Stoppino

We give the first super-polynomial separation in the power of bounded-depth boolean formulas vs. circuits. Specifically, we consider the problem Distance $k(n)$ Connectivity, which asks whether two specified nodes in a graph of size $n$ are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-12-03 Benjamin Rossman

This paper depicts an algorithm for solving the Decision Boolean Satisfiability Problem using the binary numerical properties of a Special Decision Satisfiability Problem, parallel execution, object oriented, and short termination. The two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Carlos Barrón-Romero