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Solving 3-SAT and 3-dimensional matching in polynomial time

Data Structures and Algorithms 2014-02-05 v6 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We show how the implementation of conservative logic gates on flow networks suggests a way to solve 3SAT and 3-dimensional matching problems in polynomial time by using standard minimum-cost flow methods.

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@article{arxiv.1310.1971,
  title  = {Solving 3-SAT and 3-dimensional matching in polynomial time},
  author = {Frederic Gillet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.1971},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

The proposed method does not work. Updated the article with an analysis of why the general method suggested cannot work

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