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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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### 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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### How to shrink a very large sparse matrix [closed]

Let $A$ be a matrix where $A \in \mathbb{F}^{n^s \times n^s}$ and $s>2$. Assume $A$ is a sparse matrix where its rank $\leq n$ and that there is only constant number of non-zero elements in each ...
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### Complexity of comparison unary>binary

What is the smallest widely-known complexity class to which \left\{\langle i,j\rangle\middle|\begin{array}{@{}l@{\ }l@{}} & i\ \text{is a unary encoding of a positive integer}\ \hat\imath\\\...
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### Why does not the definition of NP problems care about the complexity of guessing? [closed]

I have a question regarding the definition of NP problems. According to that, a problem is in NP if one can guess a certificate of polynomial size in polynomial time. However, this definition does not ...
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### What's the complexity of factoring over a set of generators (say in $GL_2$)?

In particular, if I have some char-0 field $k$ (let's take $\mathbb C$ for now) and I consider $G = GL_2(k)$ with arbitrary nontrivial distinct $A, B \in G$. Then for some $C \in GL_2(k)$ do we know ...
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### Is there any work that relates the liveness of a Petri Net to the complexity of determining coverability?

I'm working on a problem where the formalism appears to be an abstraction of a kind of Petri net, and it is possible to construct an equivalent Petri net from this formalism with the same behavior. ...
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### What exactly are the classes FP, FNP and TFNP?

In his book Computational Complexity, Papadimitriou defines FNP as follows: Suppose that $L$ is a language in NP. By Proposition 9.1, there is a polynomial-time decidable, polynomially balanced ...
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### Are There Highly Symmetric NP- or P-complete Languages?

Does there exist $L$, an NP- or P-complete language which has some family of symmetry groups $G_n$ (or groupoid, but then the algorithmic questions become more open) acting (in polynomial time) on ...
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### Complexity of Computing Lexicographically Minimal Element of Orbit

Given strong generators for a group $(G \leq S_n, *)$ acting on bitstrings of length $n$ and an element $s \in \{0, 1\}^n$, how hard is it to compute the lexicographically minimal element of $G.s$, ...
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### Formally proving no algorithm exists [closed]

Are there standard techniques to show that no algorithms exist for given complexity constraints? For example, consider the following problem. The input is a list of items with exactly one duplicate, ...
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### Why does this algorithm not have an exponential complexity? [closed]

In this article : Kinodynamic Motion Planning B. Donald, P. Xavier, J. Canny, J. Reif https://www.cs.duke.edu/brd/papers/src-papers/jacm-final.pdf The authors present a PTAS algorithm that can ...
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### Does Karp reducibility yield a total order?

Or with other words, do we have that for every language $A$ and $B$, $A \leq_p B$ or $B \leq_p A$?
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### Equivalence for Constant-width Read-Once Branching Programs with Distinct Orders

Let $X={x_1,...,x_n}$ be a set of variables and $\pi:[n]\rightarrow [n]$ be a permutation of the $n$-element set $[n]=\{1,...,n\}$. A $\pi$-OBDD is an oblivious, read-once branching program where ...
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### Why are these two definitions of PLS equivalent?

In the definition of the complexity class $\textsf{PLS}$ we have an algorithm for improving the solutions locally. I have come across the following two definition of such an algorithm. there is a ...
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### 2-NEXPTIME-complete problems

We have a problem and we found an algorithm that appear to be 2-nexptime. I would like to find known 2-nexptime-complete problems in order to find a lower bound. I found in literature mainly two ...
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### Complexity of counting maximum number of co-linear points in Euclidean plane

The problem: given a set of points in the Euclidean plane, find the maximum number of co-linear points. I already know that the problem can be solved in quadratic time using hashing or projective ...
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### Natural Problems NSPACE[n] but not in DTIME[n]

It is known that $\mathrm{DTIME}[n]\subseteq \mathrm{DSPACE}[n/\log n]$. Therefore, there are languages in $\mathrm{DSPACE}[n]$ which are not in $\mathrm{DTIME}[o(n\log n)]$. Are there examples of "...
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### How is the VP=VNP question in char 2 different from other char? What is the current frontier in regards to this question?

What are the caveats one should be aware of when pursuing VP=VNP question in char 2 compared to other char? What is the current frontier in regards to this question?
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### Collapses under the assumption that $NEXP\subseteq P/Poly$

It is known that if $NP\subseteq P/Poly$ then the polynomial hierarchy collapses to $\Sigma_2^{P}$ and $MA = AM$. What are the strongest collapses known to happen if $NEXP\subseteq P/Poly$?
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### Complexity of Maximum Independent Set (or Vertex Cover) on disk packing graphs

I'm interested in complexity results for Maximum Independent Set (or Vertex Cover) problem over the class of disk packing graphs. Having a set of disks we build a graph that has its vertices at the ...
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### What is the complexity of vertex cover on k-partite graphs?

Given a k-partite graph which is already partitioned into k parts, what is the complexity of finding a vertex cover of minimum size? I guess that it's NP-hard, but couldn't yet prove it or find ...