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A general method of obtaining linear differential equations having polynomial solutions is proposed. The method is based on an equivalence of the spectral problem for an element of the universal enveloping algebra of some Lie algebra in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Turbiner

I present a single algorithm which solves the clique problems, "What is the largest size clique?", "What are all the maximal cliques?" and the decision problem, "Does a clique of size k exist?" for any given graph in polynomial time. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Michael LaPlante

The problem when the order polytope and the chain polytope of a finite partially ordered set are unimodularly equivalent will be solved.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-21 Takayuki Hibi , Nan Li

List colouring is an NP-complete decision problem even if the total number of colours is three. It is hard even on planar bipartite graphs. We give a polynomial-time algorithm for solving list colouring of permutation graphs with a bounded…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-06-25 Jessica Enright , Lorna Stewart , Gabor Tardos

The linear ordering problem (LOP), which consists in ordering M objects from their pairwise comparisons, is commonly applied in many areas of research. While efforts have been made to devise efficient LOP algorithms, verification of whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Leszek Szczecinski , Harsh Sukheja

We analyze the polynomial solutions of the linear differential equation $p_2(x)y''+p_1(x)y'+p_0(x)y=0$ where $p_j(x)$ is a $j^{\rm th}$-degree polynomial. We discuss all the possible polynomial solutions and their dependence on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-04 Nasser Saad , Richard L. Hall , Victoria A. Trenton

In this paper we presents an algorithm for finding a solution of the linear nonhomogeneous quaternionic-valued differential equations. Moveover, several examples shows the feasibility of our algorithm.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Yong-Hui Xia , Hai Huang , Kit Ian Kou

In order to prove that the P of problems is different to the NP class, we consider the satisfability problem of propositional calculus formulae, which is an NP-complete problem. It is shown that, for every search algorithm A, there is a set…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-11-09 Alfredo von Reckow

We introduce a new decision problem, called Packed Interval Covering (PIC) and show that it is NP-complete.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Abdallah Saffidine , Sébastien Lê Cong , Sophie Pinchinat , François Schwarzentruber

The question of whether the complexity class P is equal to the complexity class NP has been a seemingly intractable problem for over 4 decades. It has been clear that if an algorithm existed that would solve the problems in the NP class in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Jason W. Steinmetz

We present a linear time algorithm for the minimum linear arrangement problem on proper interval graphs. The obtained ordering is a 4-approximation for general interval graphs

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ilya Safro

Reducing the conditions under which a given set satisfies the stipulations of the subset sum proposition to a set of linear relationships, the question of whether a set satisfies subset sum may be answered in a polynomial number of steps by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Aubrey Alston

A proper labeling of a graph is an assignment of integers to some elements of a graph, which may be the vertices, the edges, or both of them, such that we obtain a proper vertex coloring via the labeling subject to some conditions. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Ali Dehghan , Mohammad-Reza Sadeghi , Arash Ahadi

We study the quadratic residue problem known as an NP complete problem by way of the prime number and show that a nondeterministic polynomial process does not belong to the class P because of a random distribution of solutions for the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2012-12-29 Minoru Fujimoto , Kunihiko Uehara

The NP-hard maximum value preordering problem is both a joint relaxation and a hybrid of the clique partition problem (a clustering problem) and the partial ordering problem. Toward approximate solutions and lower bounds, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Jannik Irmai , Maximilian Moeller , Bjoern Andres

Linear programming is the seminal optimization problem that has spawned and grown into today's rich and diverse optimization modeling and algorithmic landscape. This article provides an overview of the recent development of first-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Haihao Lu

This paper presents a complete algorithmic study of the decision Boolean Satisfiability Problem under the classical computation and quantum computation theories. The paper depicts deterministic and probabilistic algorithms, propositions of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Carlos Barrón-Romero

Ordered matchings, defined as graphs with linearly ordered vertices, where each vertex is connected to exactly one edge, play a crucial role in the area of ordered graphs and their homomorphisms. Therefore, we consider related problems from…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Michal Čertík , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Jaroslav Nešetřil , Paweł Rzążewski

The classical linear ordering problem seeks a single ranking representing a given preference matrix. While suitable for homogeneous populations, it fails when observed preferences arise from several latent groups with distinct ranking…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Juan A. Aledo , Concepción Domínguez , Juan de Dios Jaime-Alcántara , Mercedes Landete

We present a numerical algorithm for finding real non-negative solutions to polynomial equations. Our methods are based on the expectation maximization and iterative proportional fitting algorithms, which are used in statistics to find…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-04-02 Dustin Cartwright