Multivariate Polynomial Integration and Derivative Are Polynomial Time Inapproximable unless P=NP
Abstract
We investigate the complexity of integration and derivative for multivariate polynomials in the standard computation model. The integration is in the unit cube for a multivariate polynomial, which has format , where each with all single variable polynomials of degree at most two and constant coefficients. We show that there is no any factor polynomial time approximation for the integration unless . For the complexity of multivariate derivative, we consider the functions with the format where each is of degree at most and coefficients. We also show that unless , there is no any factor polynomial time approximation to its derivative at the origin point . Our results show that the derivative may not be easier than the integration in high dimension. We also give some tractable cases of high dimension integration and derivative.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1012.2377,
title = {Multivariate Polynomial Integration and Derivative Are Polynomial Time Inapproximable unless P=NP},
author = {Bin Fu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.2377},
year = {2010}
}