• be easy to solve? (more unsolved problems in computer science) The P versus NP problem is a major unsolved problem in theoretical computer science. Informally...
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    computational complexity theory, a problem is NP-complete when: It is a decision problem, meaning that for any input to the problem, the output is either "yes"...
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  • drove interest in the study of NP-completeness and the P versus NP problem. Karp's 21 problems are shown below, many with their original names. The nesting...
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  • conjecture, Hodge conjecture, Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness, P versus NP problem, Riemann hypothesis, Yang–Mills existence and mass gap, and the Poincaré...
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  • the P versus NP problem, which is still widely considered the most important unsolved problem in theoretical computer science. The concept of NP-completeness...
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    Unsolved problem in computer science: P   = ?   N P {\displaystyle {\mathsf {P\ {\overset {?}{=}}\ NP}}} (more unsolved problems in computer science)...
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  • #P-complete problem, if it existed, would solve the P versus NP problem by implying that P and NP are equal. No such algorithm is known, nor is a proof...
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    answer questions about the fundamental nature of computation. The P versus NP problem, for instance, is directly related to questions of whether nondeterminism...
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  • limits on what computers can and cannot do. The P versus NP problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, is part of the field of computational complexity...
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    unsolved problems; it is also one of the Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize Problems. The P versus NP problem is a major unsolved problem in computer...
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  • a polynomial-time algorithm is equivalent to the P versus NP problem, which is a famous open problem in the theory of computing. Nevertheless, as of 2007...
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  • Unique games conjecture (category Unsolved problems in computer science)
    and P ≠ NP, then for many important problems it is not only impossible to get an exact solution in polynomial time (as postulated by the P versus NP problem)...
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  • philosophy of mind. The P versus NP problem is an unsolved problem in computer science and mathematics. It asks whether every problem whose solution can be...
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  • computers. One of the most important open problems in theoretical computer science is the P versus NP problem, which (among other equivalent formulations)...
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  • P versus NP problem What is the relationship between BQP and NP? NC = P problem NP = co-NP problem P = BPP problem P = PSPACE problem L = NL problem PH...
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  • solve the P versus NP problem, one of the most challenging mathematical problems in history. The title refers to the travelling salesman problem, an optimization...
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  • Unsolved problem in computer science: ⁠ NP   = ?   co-NP {\displaystyle {\textsf {NP}}\ {\overset {?}{=}}\ {\textsf {co-NP}}} ⁠ (more unsolved problems in computer...
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  • would settle the P versus NP problem, considered the most important open problem in computer science and one of the Millennium Prize Problems. An example of...
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  • when he published an article surveying the progress made in the P versus NP problem in Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery. In...
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    functions of an NP-complete problem and its co-NP-complete complement is exactly the same even though the underlying decision problems may not be considered...
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  • complexity P versus NP problem Termination analysis Worst-case execution time McConnell, Steve (2004). Code Complete (2nd ed.). Pearson Education. p. 374....
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    The Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem concerns the mathematical properties of solutions to the Navier–Stokes equations, a system of partial...
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  • intractability of Hilbert's Nullstellensatz and an algebraic version of "NPP?"". Duke Math. J. 81: 47–54. doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-95-08105-8. Zbl 0882...
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  • a problem that Will could solve, Kleitman and Bohman suggested the unsolved computer science P versus NP problem, but the film used other problems. The...
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    unsolved P versus NP problem asks if all problems in NP have polynomial-time algorithms. All the best-known algorithms for NP-complete problems like 3SAT...
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    an enzyme 4-Nitrophenol or p-nitrophenol Pyridoxine phosphate, a form of vitamin B6 PNP transistor P versus NP problem Plug and play, not requiring...
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  • satisfiability problem is NP-complete, and consequently, tautology is co-NP-complete. It is widely believed that (equivalently for all NP-complete problems) no polynomial-time...
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  • by Downey & Fellows (1999). Under the assumption that P ≠ NP, there exist many natural problems that require super-polynomial running time when complexity...
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  • existence and mass gap problem is an unsolved problem in mathematical physics and mathematics, and one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems defined by the Clay...
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  • more efficient than known deterministic algorithms for many problems. The P versus NP problem encapsulates this conjectured greater efficiency available...
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