Hardness Results for Structured Linear Systems
Computational Complexity
2017-09-26 v2 Data Structures and Algorithms
Numerical Analysis
Abstract
We show that if the nearly-linear time solvers for Laplacian matrices and their generalizations can be extended to solve just slightly larger families of linear systems, then they can be used to quickly solve all systems of linear equations over the reals. This result can be viewed either positively or negatively: either we will develop nearly-linear time algorithms for solving all systems of linear equations over the reals, or progress on the families we can solve in nearly-linear time will soon halt.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1705.02944,
title = {Hardness Results for Structured Linear Systems},
author = {Rasmus Kyng and Peng Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.02944},
year = {2017}
}