An Average Case NP-complete Graph Problem

نویسندگان

  • Leonid A. Levin
  • Ramarathnam Venkatesan
چکیده

NP-complete problems should be hard on some instances but these may be extremely rare. On generic instances many such problems, especially related to random graphs, have been proven easy. We show the intractability of random instances of a graph coloring problem: this graph problem is hard on average unless all NP problem under any samplable (i.e. generateable in polynomial time) distribution are easy.

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Contents 1 Average - Case Computational Complexity Theory 1

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره cs.CC/0112001  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2001