A Probabilistic Attack on NP-complete Problems
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Using the probability theory-based approach, this paper reveals the equivalence of an arbitrary NPcomplete problem to a problem of checking whether a level set of a specifically constructed harmonic cost function (with all diagonal entries of its Hessian matrix equal to zero) intersects with a unit hypercube in many-dimensional Euclidean space. This connection suggests the possibility that methods of continuous mathematics can provide crucial insights into the most intriguing open questions in modern complexity theory.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1107.0098 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011