Hard 3-CNF-SAT problems are in $P$ -- A first step in proving $NP=P$
Abstract
The relationship between the complexity classes and is an unsolved question in the field of theoretical computer science. In the first part of this paper, a lattice framework is proposed to handle the 3-CNF-SAT problems, known to be in . In the second section, we define a multi-linear descriptor function for any 3-CNF-SAT problem of size , in the sense that is such that is the set of all the solutions of . A new merge operation is defined, where is a single 3-CNF clause. Given [but this can be of exponential complexity], the complexity needed for the computation of , the set of all solutions, is shown to be polynomial for hard 3-CNF-SAT problems, i.e. the one with few () or no solutions. The third part uses the relation between and the indicator function for the set of solutions, to develop a greedy polynomial algorithm to solve hard 3-CNF-SAT problems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2001.00760,
title = {Hard 3-CNF-SAT problems are in $P$ -- A first step in proving $NP=P$},
author = {Marcel Rémon and Johan Barthélemy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.00760},
year = {2020}
}
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