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A reduction is the transformation of one problem into another problem. A example of using a reduction would be to be to show if a problem P is undecidable. This would be achieved by transforming or performing a reduction of a decision problem $P$ into an undecidable problem. If this can be achieved then we have shown that this problem P is undecidable.

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Isn't it "trivial" to represent/reduce any classical physics problem into a Spin-Glass which...

Classical physical problems often involve real-number positions or parameter values rather than values from a discrete set (such as the integers) which would be more typical of NP-complete problems. B …
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Is intersection of $k \ge 3$ graphic matroids in P?

I think it is still NP-complete, by a reduction from Hamiltonian paths in bipartite graphs with two degree-one vertices and all other vertices having degree three. (This is just the same as finding Ha …
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Reducing sorting to max-flow

It seems unlikely to me for information-theoretic reasons. Expressing the answer to a sorting problem requires $\Omega(n\log n)$ bits of information. On the other hand, the answer to a maximum flow pr …
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Natural CLIQUE to k-Color reduction

Given a graph $G$ and a number $k$, such that you want to know whether $G$ contains a $k$-clique, let n be the number of vertices in $G$. We construct another graph $H$, such that $H$ is $n$-colorable …
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Lower and upper bounds on the diameter of 3-regular graphs obtained after reducing practical...

A lower bound of approximately $\log_2 n$ still follows for arbitrary 3-regular graphs, based simply on the fact that there are at most $3\times 2^i$ different paths of length $i$ from any given star …
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