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What’s the complexity of this decision problem with bit shifting?

I’ve been wondering about the computational complexity of a problem that involves bit shifting. Let me define some notation before I present the problem. If $\langle{b}\rangle$ is a bitstring ...
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What are some examples of decidable Nautral Problems outside of EEXP?

I haven't really seen any examples of problems in complexity classes higher then EEXP. What are some examples of some primitive recursive problems outside of EEXP? Ideally with a large number of Es, ...
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is SUBEXP contained within PSPACE?, NP?

Let SUBEXP is the complexity class of all problems solvable in sub-exponential time in the length of the input. What are the known properties of this class? Is it known to be contained in PSPACE, if ...
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Hardness of finding minimal subsets that will change the maximum of a univariate polynomial

Given a univariate polynomial of the form $p(x) = \prod_{0 \leq i \leq N}{(x*a_i + b_i)}$ when all of the $a_i$ and $b_i$ are numbers in the range [-1,1] and $i$ goes from $0$ to $N$ (we are given all ...
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Prove that Vertex Cover is NP-Complete by reducing MaxCut to Vertex Cover

This is not the most straight forward reduction available on the internet since most people start from the fact that vertex cover is NP-complete and reduce a given vertex cover instance to MaxCut ...
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How is FNP defined? Or, is FNP closed under relaxation?

I hope this isn't a dumb question, but I've been driving myself nuts regarding the following. The definition of $\mathsf{FNP}$ that I've found in many places is the following: A relation $R(x,y)$ is ...
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What's the exact complexity of a DFS if we revisit nodes?

By "revisit nodes," I mean if we didn't maintain a set of nodes we have visited. So the sum I'm examining is just the number of paths from a root to a node, across all roots and nodes. We'll ...
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Complexity of "opposite" version of a variant of #Positive-2-SAT

In this post ,I introduced a new variant of #Positive-2-SAT . This version of problem puts restrictions on the inputs of the #Positive-2-SAT such that we can only choose at max only 2 clauses from ...
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Most Matrices are Rigid

The rigidity of a matrix $M\in \mathbb{F}^{n\times n}$ is the minimum number of entries that need to be changed in $M$ to reduce its rank to $r$. Formally, it is defined as: $$R_{M}^{\mathbb{F}}(r) = \...
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Is DFA language inclusion decidable in quasi-linear time? [duplicate]

Given two DFAs $A_1$ and $A_2$, we want to decide whether $\mathcal{L}(A_1) \subseteq \mathcal{L}(A_2)$. Of course, one can compute whether $\mathcal{L}(A_1) \cap \mathcal{L}(A_2) = \mathcal{L}(A_1)$. ...
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Extending fagin’s theorem for #P (for arbitary structure)

While i am reading Descriptive complexity of #P functions (Saluja) in theorem 1 he state that #FO coincides #P on ordered structures. This is a corollary from fagin’s theorem. I have read fagin’s ...
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Is there some intuitive point to understand Co-NP/poly?

I know what it means: The coNP/poly problems are problems that decide a problem in co-nondeterministic poly-time using a $poly(n)$-size advice, where $n$ is the input size. By the definition, we have ...
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Reference for cost of translating between regular language formalisms

It is well-known that regular languages can be defined equivalently via many formalisms, among which regular expressions, NFAs, finite monoids, Monadic Second-Order logic (MSO). The cost (say in size ...
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Are there well-accepted attempts of people to create complexity classes in continuous time?

I'm not in CS theory, but I've talked to a complexity theorist recently who, in passing, suggested that my research (not really analog computing, but hypercomputation using physical systems in ...
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Cheapest Insertion is $2$-approximation for TSP

Consider the Cheapest Insertion Algorithm on a complete graph with $n$ vertices, where each edge $uv$ has a weight $w(uv)$, and the weights satisfy the triangle inequality $w(xz)\leq w(xy)+w(yz)$ for ...
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Validity problem of intuitionistic two-variable logic

The two-variable fragment $\mathrm{FO}^2$ consist of those sentences of first-order logic $\mathrm{FO}$ in which precisely two variables occur (e.g. $\exists x \exists y \exists z R(x,y,z)$ is not a ...
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Any problems for which we know the complexity, but no algorithms with the same time?

I suddenly found myself wondering if there are any problems for which the complexity (time or space or anything else) is proven, say to be O(n^2), but for which the best known algorithms are worse ...
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Recursive generic oracles

In Fenner, Stephen; Fortnow, Lance; Kurtz, Stuart A.; Li, Lide, An oracle builder’s toolkit, Inf. Comput. 182, No. 2, 95-136 (2003). ZBL1025.68041, the authors go through a variety of generic oracles. ...
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Is QMA known to contain Co-NP?

Is QMA known to contain Co-NP? If not, would Co-NP being contained in QMA have any implications for other complexity classes. (e.g. Causing the polynomial heirachy to collapse.)
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What is the impact of encodings of sparse structures on the complexity of the model checking problem?

Some preliminaries first. Consider a purely-relational structure (a.k.a. database) $\mathfrak{A} = (A, R_1^{\mathfrak{A}}, \ldots, R_{|\tau|}^{\mathfrak{A}})$ over some finite signature $\tau = \{ R_1,...
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Relative error estimation of a special type of GapP function

Consider the functions included in the complexity class GapP. We know that approximating a function from GapP, in the worst case, to inverse polynomial multiplicative error, is #P-hard. Even correctly ...
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Deterministic one way communication complexity for message with arbitrary length

Let Alice have a binary string of length $n$ that it wants to send to Bob along a one-bit communication channel. However, Bob does not know the length of the message. I have been looking into ...
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What is the computational complexity of the fastest algorithm to compute Jordan canonical form for a matrix

Given a matrix, What is the computational complexity of the fastest algorithm to compute Jordan canonical form for the matrix? suppose the value of elements of the matrix and eigenvalue are complex ...
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Different definitions of grammar complexity

It's known that there are different "kinds" of grammar complexity of language $L$ --- nonterminal complexity (minimal possible $|N|$ for grammar $(N, \Sigma, P, S)$ generating $L$), covering ...
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Generating a pseudo random Rubik's cube in $O(n^{2+\epsilon})$ time

Recently I've begun considering how one could generate and solve an $n \times n\times n$ Rubik's cube for $n$ well over 10,000. To solve such a cube is feasible; easily implementable parallelizable ...
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CNF encoding of set cover - NExpTime-completness

Notation: given a CNF formula A over variables X, we write $[A(X)]$ for the set of valuations $v: X \to \{0,1\}$ such that $A(X/v)$ is true, i.e. the set of valuations that makes formula A true. I ...
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Is 4-Coloring restricted to graphs with crossing number 1 NP-complete?

Planar graphs are 4-colorable. Determining if a planar graph is 3-colorable is NP-Complete. A graph with a crossing number 1 (graph such that it can be drawn with $\le 1$ crossing) is 5-colorable. ...
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Is there significance to the ratio of the time it takes to locate a problem's solution over the time it takes to verify the solution?

I believe I have found a problem, the solution to which can be verified in 0 time (the solution can only be located in non-zero time, however). As a result, the ratio of the time required to locate a ...
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On the complexity of a "list" datastructure in the RAM model

I am interested in the complexity of a data-structure equipped with the following operations (similar to a list): insertion of an element at a given position within the list deletion of an element at ...
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The theoretical complexity of Go - The state of the art

What are the latest advances in theoretical complexity of Go? I know some early works about the complexity of Go: "Go is polynomial-space hard" proved that Go is PSPACE-hard. "Ladders are PSPACE-...
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Complexity of multi-objective optimization problems

How can we define and prove the worst-case complexity of multi-objective optimization problems (MOOP)? It is easy to see that, if one of the objectives is an NP-Hard optimization problem, then the ...
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Fast algorithm to find pair of triangles with a common edge in a complete graph

Suppose we have a complete graph with 4 nodes. To each triangle in this graph we assign a value $energy$ that is the multiplication of its edge weights. The question is to first find pair of triangles ...
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Constraints on sliding windows

Let $L\subseteq \Sigma^*$ be a language of finite words and $n>0$ some integer. I would like to know if anything is known on the time and space complexity with respect to $n$ to check for ...
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Evidence integer multiplication is in linear time?

After millenia of quest we have identified two $n$ bit integers can be multiplied in $O(n\log n)$ time. Please refer details in https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-discover-the-perfect-way-...
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What is a natural problem in theory of computation?

In Stephen Cook's paper on the P vs NP problem,[1] he states the following [2]: Feasibility Thesis: A natural problem has a feasible algorithm iff it has a polynomial-time algorithm. My question ...
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Does small circuits for a NP-complete problem contradict ETH?

The remarks of the Theorem 4 in the paper "On the complexity of circuit satisfiability" claims that: if circuit satisfiability (CktSat) problem can be decided by deterministic circuits of $2^{o(n)}$ ...
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Is convex optimisation in P?

Consider a convex optimisation problem in the form $$\begin{align} f_0(x_1, \ldots, x_n) &\to \min \\ f_i(x_1, \ldots, x_n) & \leq 0, \quad i = 1, \ldots, m \end{align}$$ where $f_0, f_1, \...
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Sentences in what kinds of grammar in the Chomsky hierarchy can be parsed by an LSTM of a given size?

Given an LSTM $N$ of a given size $A$, a sentence $S$ with a given number of words $B$, a Chomsky grammar hierarchy level $C$ in 0-3, a Chomsky grammar $G$ of level $C$ of size $D$, A given fixed, ...
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Looking for Research in Cryptographic Computing

I recall reading in college about a nascent research area regarding cryptographic techniques for secure computing, relating to zero-knowledge proofs, but I am having trouble remembering the exact term....
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SAT Solvers and their applications

I've been reading and learning about SAT solvers this week. If they can solve problems with thousands of variable quickly haven't we practically solved ANY problem that can be reduced to it, including ...
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Is there a counterexample to this work?

Is there a counterexample to this claim https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00353? They claim a $O(n^6)$ LP model with simulations to support. I think asking validity is not a reasonable problem. However ...
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Error in paper "Some NP-complete geometric problems"?

The paper in question: M.R. Garey, R.L. Graham and D.S. Johnson. Some NP-complete geometric problems . This paper proofs the NP-completeness of some well-known problems, such as the Steiner Tree ...
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Paths of length $p$ in a Graph, $p$ a prime

I came across the following decision problem, for which I wondered whether anybody of you came across a similar problem and can give me some insight on its nature/complexity. Given as input a ...
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Implications of resolving $BPP$ vs $PSPACE$

The relationship between the complexity classes $BPP$, $P$, and $NEXP$ is currently undetermined. We know that $P \neq EXP$ by the time hierarchy theorem, but we don't know if $BPP = P$ (as many ...
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Are these problems in NP class?

${\bf New\ version}$ [Version 1.2] Let $f: \mathbb{N} \to \{0,1\}$ be a computable function, ${\bf Fin}(\mathbb{Z})$ be the set of all finite subsets of $\mathbb{Z}$, and $W: {\bf Fin}(\mathbb{Z}) \...
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Does $\textbf{PCP}[poly(n), O(1)] = \textbf{coRP}$?

Something has been buzzing me recently. It is well-known that $\textbf{PCP}[poly(n), 0] = \textbf{coRP}$, but does $\textbf{PCP}[poly(n), O(1)] = \textbf{coRP}$ ? I have found a proof for this ...
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Petri net termination

Termination is the following problem. Input: a Petri Net with initial marking Output: "yes" iff there exists an infinite firing sequence. The naive algorithm in the case of bounded nets for example ...
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Formally Verified Complexity Theory

Is there any ongoing project to formally verify the theorems and proofs of complexity theory using a proof assistant like Coq? Are there any boundaries to doing this?
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Complexity of the Schönhage–Strassen algorithm

In the Wikipedia article, the complexity is listed as $O(n \cdot \log (n) \cdot \log (\log (n)))$, where $n$ is the number of bits. Would the real bound be given by setting $n=\frac{b}{w}$, where $b$...
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Parallel Pebble Game on a Line

In the pebble game on a line there are N+1 nodes labelled 0 through N. The game starts with a pebble on node 0. If there is a pebble on node i, you can add or remove a pebble from node i+1. The goal ...
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