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Lower bound for the Complexity of the Boolean Satisfiability Problem

Computational Complexity 2016-04-15 v4

Abstract

This paper depicts algorithms for solving the decision Boolean Satisfiability Problem. An extreme problem is formulated to analyze the complexity of algorithms and the complexity for solving it. A novel and easy reformulation as a lottery for an extreme case is presented to determine a stable complexity around 2n2^n. The reformulation point out that the decision Boolean Satisfiability Problem can only be solved in exponential time. This implies there is not an efficient algorithm for the NP Class.

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@article{arxiv.1602.06867,
  title  = {Lower bound for the Complexity of the Boolean Satisfiability Problem},
  author = {Carlos Barrón-Romero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.06867},
  year   = {2016}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1510.02682

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