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### Is there a counterexample to this work?

Predecessor versions of this paper have been around for more than 15 years. I remember that there were counter-examples to the first versions, then first revisions, counter-examples to the first ...
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### Barriers to show $P=NP$

Mihalis Yannakakis has shown that the traveling salesman problem cannot be solved in polynomial time by using a symmetric linear program. See the paper Expressing combinatorial optimization problems ...
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### Algorithm whose running time depends on P vs. NP

If you assume that $P=^?NP$ is provable in PA (or ZFC), a trivial example is the following: ...
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### What is a natural problem in theory of computation?

To be clear, it's not meant to be formalizable. It's not a theorem, it's an observation about the world -- it's okay if "natural" is subjective here. For analogy, if someone says "differentiation is ...
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### Analogies between VNP and NP

The basic idea is that summing over all Boolean strings (VNP) is like counting the solutions to an NP problem. Even from this perspective, one sees that VNP is more like #P than NP. This is also true ...
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### Proofs, Barriers and P vs NP

Contrary to some claims earlier in this thread, algebrization in the sense of Aaronson & Wigderson is not known to subsume relativization. For example, \tag{$\dagger$}(\exists \mathcal{C}: \...
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### Why do computer scientists on the whole work under the assumption that P ≠ NP?

As a rule of thumb, for any unsolved problem people tend to conjecture the statement that starts with a universal quantifier - since if it started with an existential one, then one would expect to ...
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### Did Jinliang Wang solve the P versus NP problem?

No, the pruning in the paper doesn’t work. For example, consider a graph on four nodes where two nodes have distance 1 while the other two have distance 101, with all other edges having distance 100. ...
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### Is "two or zero" matching in a bipartite graph NP complete?

The answer here seems to imply there is a more general result. For this particular case, here is a self contained way to reduce the problem to maximum weight perfect matching. Assume $k$ is even. ...
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### Is there a relation between BBH (black box hypothesis) and SETH (strong exponential time hypothesis)?

Adding to Sasha's answer. Roughly speaking, BBH posits that every property of functions that is hard to decide with only query access to the function (black box access) is also hard to decide when you'...
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### List of theorems stating that P does not equal NP if and only if

Here is a result from descriptive complexity theory: $P \ne NP$ if and only if some second order property is not expressible using first order logic plus least fixed point. Reference: Immerman, ...

### Implications of unprovability of $P\neq NP$

As proved in this paper: http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/users/wwwb/cgi-bin/tr-get.cgi/1991/CS/CS0699.revised.pdf If $P \neq NP$ can be shown to be independent of Peano Arithmetic, then NP has extremely-...
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### List of theorems stating that P does not equal NP if and only if

Ladner theorem can be stated as: $P \ne NP$ if and only if there exists an incomplete set in $NP-P$. Incomplete set is a set that is not complete for $NP$ under many-one polynomial time reductions. ...
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### L/P/PSpace vs P/NP

The only known proper containment is still $L \subsetneq PSPACE$, though they are all widely believed to be different. All the rest are still wide-open. The recent work on Fine-Grained Complexity",...
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### Two DFA intersection emptiness connections to SETH & L vs P

The "inverse" is almost the same as SAT is solvable in $O(2^{(1-\epsilon)n})$ time implies the intersection problem is solvable in $O(n^{2-\epsilon})$ time. To show this, it seems that you would ...
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### Chaos and the $P{=}NP$ question

the paper you cite by Ercsey-Ravasz, Toroczkai is very crosscutting; it fits in with/ touches on several lines of NP complete problem/ complexity/ hardness research. the connection to statistical ...
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### Barriers to show $P=NP$

Not much of a barrier, but it's worth noting that a lot of Proof Complexity research involves finding lower bounds to the size of proofs of propositional statements in certain settings. For example, ...
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This paper, Polynomial-time solution of prime factorization and NP-complete problems with digital memcomputing machines, claims an efficient algorithm for NP-complete problems. Digital memcomputing ...