[PDF][PDF] The P versus NP problem

S Cook - Clay Mathematics Institute, 2000 - cs.utoronto.ca
… There are interesting examples of NP problems not known to be either in P or NP-complete.
One example is the set of composite numbers, mentioned in the first section, with checking …

The history and status of the P versus NP question

M Sipser - Proceedings of the twenty-fourth annual ACM …, 1992 - dl.acm.org
… of the solution to a problem. … in a similar sense, This would mean that if there were no
polynomial time algorithm for the clique problem, we would never be able to prove the nonexistence…

[BOOK][B] P, NP, and NP-Completeness: The basics of computational complexity

O Goldreich - 2010 - books.google.com
… of them can encode any other problem in NP. Thus, these demonstrations provide a method
of encoding instances of any NP problem as instances of the target NP-complete problem. …

The status of the P versus NP problem

L Fortnow - Communications of the ACM, 2009 - dl.acm.org
… So while we don’t expect the P versus NP problem to be resolved in the near future, the
question has driven research in a number of topics to help us understand, handle, and even take …

S Aaronson - Open problems in mathematics, 2016 - Springer
… , NP-hard means “at least as hard as any NP problem”: … NP-hard problem, we could use it
to solve all NP problems in polynomial time. Also, L is NP -complete if L is NP-hard and L ∈ NP

P, NP and mathematics–a computational complexity perspective

A Wigderson - Proceedings of the ICM, 2006 - ems.press
… general, and the P vs. NP problem in particular, have gained prominence within the mathematics
community in the past decade, it is still largely viewed as a problem of computer science…

Solution of P versus NP Problem

F Vega - 2015 - hal.science
… We demonstrate that equivalent-P = NP and equivalent-P = P. In this way, we find the … to
which any other NP problem can be reduced in polynomial-time, but whose solution may still be …

Approximate solution of NP optimization problems

G Ausiello, P Crescenzi, M Protasi - Theoretical Computer Science, 1995 - Elsevier
problem is a paradigmatic example of an NP problem which is difficult to solve in polynomial
time and since no … In the following section we will show examples of OPT NP problems. …

[PDF][PDF] P versus NP

E Mayordomo - Monografías de la Real Academia de Ciencias de …, 2004 - researchgate.net
… I will also mention important connections of the P vs. NP problem with finite model theory and
… of the two possible solutions of the problem. Notice that the mathematical consequence of …

A solution to the p versus NP problem

FV Delgado - arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.2730, 2010 - arxiv.org
… the complexity class NP. We find a problem in NP which is not in P; because if it would be
present in that class, then it will imply that some undecidable problem will be in NP too. That's …