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P and Descriptive Complexity

In the Complexity Zoo, it says [1] that, in descriptive complexity, $P$ can be defined by three different kind of formulae, $FO(LFP)$ which is also $FO(n^{O(1)})$, and also as $SO(HORN)$. However, ...
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Parallel building time of a k-d tree on n points with n processors

Given a point set with $n$ points to build a k-d tree on. We have $n$ processors available. What is the time-optimal building time for the k-d tree? A straight forward parallelization would be as ...
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$k$th element in data stream

In the streaming model how can i find the $k$th element (not $k$th most frequent) with erorr of at most $\pm \epsilon$ s.t. we return index $i$ that $(1-\epsilon)k \leq i \leq (1+\epsilon)k$ using ...
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Weighted Min-Cut in bounded-genus graphs

What is the status of the following decision problem ? Input : A graph $G=(V,E)$ embedded in a torus (or more generally a surface of genus $g$), a weight function $w:E \rightarrow \{-1,1\}$ Output : ...
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Is #PP2DNF hard to approximate?

The problem #PP2DNF asks to count the number of satisfying assignments of a positive partitioned 2-DNF Boolean formula, i.e., a formula $\phi$ on variables $X_1, \ldots, X_n, Y_1, \ldots, Y_m$ of the ...
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Universe polymorphism: the inference of universes and their constraints

When making a universe polymorphic definition in Coq, universes and their constraints are automatically inferred. Are they somewhat the most general ones (in a sense similar to the principal type ...
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Would an NP-complete public key cryptosystem imply NP=co-NP?

Would the existence of an NP-complete (or co-NP-complete) public key signature cryptosystem imply that NP = co-NP? My specialty is definitely not theoretical computer science, so this is somewhat of ...
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Is there a stochastic/online version of the GLM-Tron algorithm?

The GLM-Tron algorithm appeared in Theorem $1$ in this paper, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1104.2018.pdf Is there a stochastic version of this? (...essentially something that will randomly sample a few ...
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Is F<: with bottom undecidable?

We all know that F<: is undecidable: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~abela/lehre/SS07/Typen/pierce93bounded.pdf However, I have difficulties finding that anyone claiming the version with bottom added ...
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Minimal generator for a set of sets

Is this a known problem? Given a set of sets $S$ find a set of sets $B$ s.t. each set in $S$ can be obtained through unions of some sets in $B$. The set $S$ is already a solution but the objective is ...
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Hereditary Substitution with Inductives and Eliminators?

I'm wondering, is there any existing work on hereditary substitution with inductive type families and dependent eliminators? In particular, normalizing the application of an eliminator to an ...
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What's the example of natural transformation in 'Type" that is not a parametric function?

Take a type theory of your choice (perhaps System Fω). Parametric functions are known to be natural transformations in 'Type' category. Yet not every natural transformation in 'Type' is a polymorphic ...
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Validity of a modal argument about “vagueness”

(2nd version to make explicit my implicit assumptions about A, B and C, and the definitions of the non-logical constants "⊂" and "≡".) Intuitively, the following modal argument seems valid to me and ...
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Natural candidates for NP-E and E-NP

It has been known since the early 70's that ${\bf NP}$ and ${\bf E}=DTIME(2^{O(n)})$ are not equal (because ${\bf E}$ is not closed under polynomial-time many-one reductions, in contrast to ${\bf NP}$...
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Bellman-Ford with Non-edge-decomposable Path Weights

Consider a directed graph $G(V,E)$ with non-negative edge weights. Also, let us define the weight of a path as non-edge-decomposable, that is, the weight of a path cannot be written as the sum of a ...
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Solving an LP with at most m-1 nonzeros

Consider the linear program: $$A x = b, ~~~~~~ x\geq 0$$ where $A$ is an $m$-by-$n$ matrix, $x$ is an $n$-by-1 vector, $b$ is an $m$-by-1 vector, and $m<n$. It is known that, if this ...
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Is CoC inconsistent with cnat_ind axiom?

It is not possible to derive induction for Church-encoded datatypes on the Calculus of Constructions (source). Moreover, according to the accepted answer to another question, it is also not possible ...
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Continuous mathematics and formal language theory

Whether there are some results on solving formal languages problems using mathematical analysis, continuous mathematics. For example, solving the intersection non-emptiness problem for a context-free ...
For which $R$ is $\{0^a10^b10^c\mid R(a,b,c)\}$ context-free?
Unless I'm mistaken, a language of the form $\{0^a10^b\mid R(a,b)\}$ is context-free if and only if $R$ is a finite union of linear (in)equalities involving integer constants and the variables $a$ and ...