problems in NP in polynomial time. The concept of NP-completeness was introduced in 1971 (see Cook–Levin theorem), though the term NP-complete was introduced...
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NP-complete. An important variant is where each clause has exactly three literals (3SAT), since it is used in the proof of many other NP-completeness...
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computational complexity, strong NP-completeness is a property of computational problems that is a special case of NP-completeness. A general computational problem...
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To attack the P = NP question, the concept of NP-completeness is very useful. NP-complete problems are problems that any other NP problem is reducible...
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In computational complexity, an NP-complete (or NP-hard) problem is weakly NP-complete (or weakly NP-hard) if there is an algorithm for the problem whose...
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computationally intractable, and it drove interest in the study of NP-completeness and the P versus NP problem. Karp's 21 problems are shown below, many with their...
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computational problems that are co-NP-complete are those that are the hardest problems in co-NP, in the sense that any problem in co-NP can be reformulated as a...
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S. (1979). Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness. Series of Books in the Mathematical Sciences (1st ed.). New York:...
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Publishing. ISBN 0-534-94728-X. Sections 7.3–7.5 (The Class NP, NP-completeness, Additional NP-complete Problems), pp. 241–271. David Harel, Yishai Feldman....
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versus NP problem, which is still widely considered the most important unsolved problem in theoretical computer science. The concept of NP-completeness was...
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Computers and Intractability (redirect from Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-completeness)
Theory of NP-Completeness is a textbook by Michael Garey and David S. Johnson. It was the first book exclusively on the theory of NP-completeness and computational...
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Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-44124-1. Chap. 11. Goldreich, Oded (2010). P, NP, and NP-completeness: The Basics of Computational Complexity. Cambridge University Press...
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independently discovered the existence of NP-complete problems. This NP-completeness theorem, often called the Cook–Levin theorem, was a basis for one of...
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NP-completeness, and proved the existence of an NP-complete problem by showing that the Boolean satisfiability problem (usually known as SAT) is NP-complete...
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Look up np in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. NP may refer to: NP (novel), by Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto Nashua-Plainfield Community School District...
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S. (1979). Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness. Series of Books in the Mathematical Sciences (1st ed.). New York:...
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Not-all-equal 3-satisfiability (category NP-complete problems)
3-satisfiability (NAE3SAT) is an NP-complete variant of the Boolean satisfiability problem, often used in proofs of NP-completeness. Like 3-satisfiability, an...
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Hamiltonian path problem (category NP-complete problems)
of NP-complete problems, as shown in Michael Garey and David S. Johnson's book Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness and...
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Numerical 3-dimensional matching (category Strongly NP-complete problems)
a reduction from 3-dimensional matching via 4-partition. To prove NP-completeness of the numerical 3-dimensional matching, the proof should be similar...
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Polynomial-time reduction (section Completeness)
is GI-complete, as are several other related problems. Karp's 21 NP-complete problems MIT OpenCourseWare: 16. Complexity: P, NP, NP-completeness, Reductions...
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Numberlink (category NP-complete problems)
problem, finding a solution to a given Numberlink puzzle is NP-complete. NP-completeness is maintained even if "zig-zag" paths are allowed. Informally...
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Average-case complexity (redirect from DistNP)
average-case complexity and completeness while giving an example of a complete problem for distNP, the average-case analogue of NP. The first task is to precisely...
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Graph isomorphism problem (redirect from GI-complete)
position of the problem in the class NP as well as in other complexity classes.) Johnson, David S. (2005), "The NP-Completeness Column", ACM Transactions on Algorithms...
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Tentai Show (category NP-complete problems)
be NP-complete. This was proven by Friedman (2002) by constructing puzzles equivalent to arbitrary Boolean circuits, which shows NP-completeness because...
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3-partition problem (category Strongly NP-complete problems)
to be NP-complete, by a reduction from 3-dimensional matching. The classic reference by Garey and Johnson (1979) describes an NP-completeness proof,...
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Circuit satisfiability problem (category NP-complete problems)
can be reduced to the other satisfiability problems to prove their NP-completeness. The satisfiability of a circuit containing m {\displaystyle m} arbitrary...
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Stearns and the 1979 book by Michael Garey and David S. Johnson on NP-completeness, the term "computational complexity" (of algorithms) has become commonly...
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Minesweeper (video game) (category NP-complete problems)
original (PDF) on 9 June 2019. — An open-access paper explaining Kaye's NP-completeness result. Richard Kaye's Minesweeper pages Microsoft Minesweeper playable...
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Millennium Prize Problems (section P versus NP)
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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would be NP-complete. In 1982, Steve Mahaney published his proof that the nonexistence of sparse NP-complete languages (with NP-completeness defined in...
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