# Questions tagged [np-hardness]

Questions related to NP-hardness and NP-completeness.

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### NP-Hardness of 4-cycle packing problem in complete bipartite digraph?

A directed complete bipartite graph is a bipartite graph where there is exactly one directed edge between any two vertices from its two different parts. In other words, it's an orientation of a ...
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### Linear programming TSP variant constraint formulation [closed]

For a variant of the TSP problem such that not all vertices have to be visited, is there a way to add a constraint such that the linear program will start at a certain vertex?
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### Relationship between two graph optimization problems

Let $Q$ be a polynomial time computable graph property of simple, undirected graphs. Consider the following two optimization problems on any input graph: P1. Find a largest induced subgraph of the ...
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### How hard is it to approximate distance of linear code

I'm trying to figure out what is the current knowledge about how hard it is, given a generating matrix of a linear code over a field $F_{q}$, approximate it's distance. I of course found that ...
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### What Is the Complexity of This Two-to-One Matching Problem?

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$ and a function $c:V\mapsto\{1,2\}$. The function $c(\cdot)$ divides the vertices into two disjoint sets $V_1$ and $V_2$, where for all $v_1\in V_1$, we have $c(v_1)=1$ and for ...
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### Example of decidable NP-hard problem that is not NP-complete [closed]

I am looking for an example of a decision problem which fulfills the following conditions: 1. It is decidable 2. It is NP-hard 3. It is not NP-complete All my search attempts yielded examples that ...
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### NP-hardness of a planar SAT variant

Background: An instance of 3-SAT is called monotone if each clause consists only of positive literals or only of negative literals. Given an instance $\phi$ of 3-SAT, we consider the bipartite graph ...
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### What languages can be reduced to a NP-complete problem in polynomial time

NP-complete: Language is NP-complete, when it is in NP and every problem in NP is reducible to it in polynomial time. But what languages are reducible to a NP-complete problem (for example SAT) in ...
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### Optimal bee swarm plots: NP-hard?

Bee swarm plots are a way of visualizing one-dimensional data sets, similar to box plots. The idea is that if there's not too many points (e.g. <300) we can just plot them along the $x$-axis with ...
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### Generalization of k-Coloring: maximizing the number of vertices with no neighbours of same color

One can consider the following generalization of the $k$-Coloring problem: Let be given a graph $G$ and an two integers $k$ and $p$. A vertex $v$ of $G$ is properly colored if $v$ has no neighbour ...
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### Is minimal cover under symmetric 3-deduction NP-complete?

Forgive me if this problem is known by another name, I do not know any references for it. Symmetric deduction. An equation $e \in E$ is a subset of variables $V$ such that knowing $|e| - 1$ of the ...
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### Complexity of existence of simple polygonalization with prescribed area?

This is a followup on my previous question. Fekete proved the NP-completeness of deciding the existence of simple polygonalization with minimum (or maximum) enclosed area (simple polygonalization is ...
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### Which monotone DNFs are evasive?

A Boolean function $\phi$ on variables $X$ is evasive if every decision tree for $\phi$ has height $|X|$. In other words, for any strategy that picks variables of $X$ and asks for their value, an ...
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### A partition problem with order constraints

In the OrderedPartition problem, the input is two sequences of $n$ positive integers, $(a_i)_{i\in [n]}$ and $(b_i)_{i\in [n]}$. The output is a partition of the ...
### Counting the maximum number of paths of length $n$ that differ in at least $k$ edges
What is known about the complexity of solving (or approximately solving) the following problem? INPUT: Graph $G=(V,E)$ and constants $L$ and $K$. OUTPUT: The maximum size of any set $S$ of simple ...