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### Reference on generalization of plane graph duality between bonds and simple cycles

I've also asked this question on Mathoverflow, but it hasn't gotten an answer after several months: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/316132/reference-on-generalization-of-plane-graph-duality-between-...
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### Shortest s-t path when is allowed to ignore k weights

Given an undirected graph $G$ with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, with non-negative weights on the edges, what's the best algorithm that computes the shortest path from $s$ to $t$, where you are allowed ...
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### Intuition Behind Strict Positivity?

I'm wondering if someone can give me the intuition behind why strict positivity of inductive data types guarantees strong normalization. To be clear, I see how having negative occurrences leads to ...
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### How small can extension complexity be?

In this article on extension complexity of regular polygons https://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.08031.pdf it is mentioned that extension complexity of $n$ regular polygons should be $\theta(\log n)$. This is ...
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### Are Turing machines still useful as model of computation?

Often when I hear "Turing machine," my mind's eye pictures a quaint infinite ticker-tape with a small little machine writing and erasing $0$'s and $1$'s. But when I'm forced to think about a Turing ...
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### Canonical complete problem for $\mathrm{FP}^{\Sigma^p_2}$

Given a $\Sigma^p_2$-complete oracle (i.e., $\Sigma_2 \mathrm{SAT}$), I have a problem that requires to call this oracle polynomially many times and returns an integer. Essentially, this is a function ...
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### Entropy bounds on solutions to problems in BPP and other complexity classes based on entropy demands

Has anyone studied the asymptotics of problems in complexity classes like $BPP$? The thought came to me that if a problem in $BPP$ only requires $O(log(n))$ bits of entropy to solve then, intuitively, ...
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### Naive definition of treewidth

Treewidth has arguably pretty involved definition. Recently I was thinking about a problem and turns out it easy to solve it for graphs with small naive treewidth''. Naive treewidth is defined as ...
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### Extending Hindley-Milner to type mutable references

I have been trying to implement a programming language from scratch, and have gotten reasonably far. It reads just like Python, other than the fact that let is used ...
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