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Folklore in complexity theory suspects that circuit lower bounds against $\mathbf{NC}^1$ or $\mathbf{P}/\operatorname{poly}$, currently out of reach, are a necessary step towards proving strong proof complexity lower bounds for systems like…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Noel Arteche , Erfan Khaniki , Ján Pich , Rahul Santhanam

Satisfiability of Boolean circuits is among the most known and important problems in theoretical computer science. This problem is NP-complete in general but becomes polynomial time when restricted either to monotone gates or linear gates.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Paweł M. Idziak , Jacek Krzaczkowski

Set Disjointness on a Line is a variant of the Set Disjointness problem in a distributed computing scenario with $d+1$ processors arranged on a path of length $d$. It was introduced by Le Gall and Magniez (PODC 2018) for proving lower…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 Frederic Magniez , Ashwin Nayak

Electrical Impedance Tomography gives rise to the severely ill-posed Calder\'on problem of determining the electrical conductivity distribution in a bounded domain from knowledge of the associated Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for the governing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Kim Knudsen , Aksel K. Rasmussen

Discrete conformal mappings based on circle packing, vertex scaling, and related structures has had significant activity since Thurston proposed circle packing as a way to approximate conformal maps in the 1980s. The first convergence…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-06 David Glickenstein , Lee Sidbury

We define the class of high dimensional graph manifolds. These are compact smooth manifolds supporting a decomposition into finitely many pieces, each of which is diffeomorphic to the product of a torus with a finite volume hyperbolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-22 Roberto Frigerio , Jean-Francois Lafont , Alessandro Sisto

The present article is an exposition of a theory of discrete convex functions on certain graph structures, developed by the author in recent years. This theory is a spin-off of discrete convex analysis by Murota, and is motivated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-08 Hiroshi Hirai

In this paper we prove tight bounds on the combinatorial and topological complexity of sets defined in terms of $n$ definable sets belonging to some fixed definable family of sets in an o-minimal structure. This generalizes the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Saugata Basu

In this paper, we show that every $(2^{n-1}+1)$-vertex induced subgraph of the $n$-dimensional cube graph has maximum degree at least $\sqrt{n}$. This result is best possible, and improves a logarithmic lower bound shown by Chung, F\"uredi,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Hao Huang

Learning properties of large graphs from samples has been an important problem in statistical network analysis since the early work of Goodman \cite{Goodman1949} and Frank \cite{Frank1978}. We revisit a problem formulated by Frank…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Jason M. Klusowski , Yihong Wu

We develop a general deterministic distributed method for locally rounding fractional solutions of graph problems for which the analysis can be broken down into analyzing pairs of vertices. Roughly speaking, the method can transform…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Salwa Faour , Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau , Fabian Kuhn , Václav Rozhoň

We define nondeterministic communication complexity in the model of communication complexity with help of Babai, Hayes and Kimmel. We use it to prove logarithmic lower bounds on the NOF communication complexity of explicit graph functions,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Adi Shraibman

We show new upper and lower bounds for the complexity of implementation of a sequence of Boolean matrices proposed by Kaski et al. (arXiv:1208.0554) with additive circuits.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-11 Igor Sergeev

Computing the diameter of the intersection graphs of objects is a basic problem in computational geometry. Previous works showed that the complexity of computing the diameter mainly depends on the object types: for unit disks and squares in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Timothy M. Chan , Hsien-Chih Chang , Jie Gao , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Hung Le , Da Wei Zheng

The Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) dimension is an established measure for the inherent descriptive complexity of graphs and relational structures. It corresponds to the number of variables that are needed and sufficient to define the object of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Sandra Kiefer , Daniel Neuen

We study the existence of polynomial kernels, for parameterized problems without a polynomial kernel on general graphs, when restricted to graphs of bounded twin-width. Our main result is that a polynomial kernel for $k$-Dominating Set on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Édouard Bonnet , Eun Jung Kim , Amadeus Reinald , Stéphan Thomassé , Rémi Watrigant

We establish a lower bound for deciding the satisfiability of the conjunction of any two Boolean formulas from a set called a full representation of Boolean functions of $n$ variables - a set containing a Boolean formula to represent each…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Samuel C. Hsieh

We show in two dimensions that measuring Dirichlet data for the conductivity equation on an open subset of the boundary and, roughly speaking, Neumann data in slightly larger set than the complement uniquely determines the conductivity on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-09-19 Oleg Yu. Imanuvilov , Gunther Uhlmann , masahiro Yamamoto

We investigate the emergence of quantum complexity and chaos in doped Clifford circuits acting on qudits of odd prime dimension $d$. Using doped Clifford Weingarten calculus and a replica tensor network formalism, we derive exact results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Beatrice Magni , Xhek Turkeshi

Analyzing the geometry of correlation sets constrained by general causal structures is of paramount importance for foundational and quantum technology research. Addressing this task is generally challenging, prompting the development of…