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A problem related to routing in a graph
I have come across a new problem - I want to know whether this problem is similar to some existing problem or not.
The new problem is this. There is a tourist who has a having the following ...
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Fast checking that overdetermined polynomial system does not have a solution
As a result of some inductive procedure for each $n$ I have a system of about $n^2$ polynomial equations with $n$ variables with integer coefficients, which can be precisely computed. As the system is ...
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Correspondence between numerical semigroups and polynomials?
A numerical semigroup $A$ is defined as a subsemigroup of the semigroup $(\mathbb{N},+)$ of the positive integers such that the set $\mathbb{N}\setminus A$ is finite. Equivalently (for a subsemigroup) ...
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Connection between inf-entropy rate and min-entropy
I am reading the paper "Generating random bits from an arbitrary source: fundamental limits" by Vembu and Verdu. This paper is written in the language of information theory, however, I need to ...
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largest size for a randomness extractor
I am not so expert in theoretical computer science, so sorry if the question is trivial, i just could not find it in literature.
Suppose we have a source $X$ with min-entropy $\ell$, the randomness ...
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Which automated theorem provers can address the combinatorics of periods in strings?
Five years ago, I made a conjecture on the number of correlation classes that are exhibited by pairs of words in an alphabet of a given size. I later speculated that the conjecture could be tackled ...
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Number of partitions whose blocks form arithmetic progressions
As is known, the set $\{1,\ldots,n\}$ has $2^n$ many subsets and $B_n$ (the $n$th Bell number) many partitions, where clearly $B_n<2^{2^n}$ and it is actually known that $B_n<n^n$ for large $n$. ...
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How many edges can you put in a graph such that every edge belongs to a minimal $k$-cycle?
I am trying to solve:
Given $n, k$, find maximum $m$ such that there exists a graph on $n$ nodes, $m$ edges such that every edge is part of a minimal $k$-cycle.
I only care about the asymptotic ...
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Self-similarity in the theory of computability
Let $M = w_0w_1... \in \{0,1\}^*$.
For any computable function $f$ define $M_f = w_{f(0)}w_{f(1)}...$
Let for any computable strictly increasing function $f$ there is continuous
computable mapping ...
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Private Randomness extractor
Suppose we are given two random variables $X$ and $Y$ with fixed marginal and joint distribution. What is the maximum randomness that we can extract from $Y$ that is independent from $X$, that is, if ...
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Wanted: a “Coq for the working mathematician”
Sorry for a possibly off-topic question -- there are four StackExchange subs each of which could be construed as the proper place for this question, and I've just picked the one I'm most familiar ...
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Fundamental Problems in Mathematics that, without Computer Sciences, would not be resolved? [closed]
Could you please give examples of fundamental questions in mathematics (let us say, pure mathematics) which were resolved fundamentally by the use of computers? More precisely, are there examples that ...
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Separating infinite words sharing factors by automata
Two infinite words $\xi, \eta \in X^{\omega}$ are separated by an (Büchi-)automaton if it accepts one but not the other.
Denote by $F_n(\xi)$ the factors of length $n$ of an infinite word $\xi$ and ...
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How feasible is it to prove Kazhdan's property (T) by a computer?
Recently, I have proved that Kazhdan's property (T) is theoretically provable
by computers (arXiv:1312.5431,
explained below), but I'm quite lame with computers and have
no idea what they actually ...
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Generalising the adherence operator and its closure properties with regard to regular (rational) languages
Let $X$ be an alphabet and denote by $X^{\omega}$ the set of all infinite sequences (i.e. words) in $X$. A subset $L \subseteq X^{\omega}$ is called $\omega$-regular if it is acceptable by some ...
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Subsets of all Diophantine's sets
I have asked this question on math.stackexchange already:
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/627461/subsets-of-all-diophantines-sets
Function $\mathbb{N}^k \to \mathbb{N}^m$ is computable ...
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Can We Decide Whether Small Computer Programs Halt?
The undecidability of the halting problem states that there is no general procedure for deciding whether an arbitrary sufficiently complex computer program will halt or not.
Are there some large $n$ ...
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About “natural proof” of Razborov and Rudich
The famous "Natural Proof" paper ,http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/natural.pdf , of Razborov and Rudich gives a barrier for any proof that try to separate P and NP. It mainly shows that if ...
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Place N points in a 3d cube in a way that maximizes the minimum of their pairwise distances
Place $N$ points in a 3d cube in a way that maximizes the minimum of their pairwise distances.
The problem can easily be solved for $N\lt5$, but how to proceed for larger $N$?
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Why is there no product type in simply typed lambda-calculus?
Consider simply typed $\lambda$-calculus that has only the unit type as primitive. We would like to encode the product and the sum types. An encoding of the product type in the untyped ...
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How many 2L-bit numbers are the product of two L-bit numbers?
If I multiply two integers $x, y $ in $[0,2^L)$, I get an integer in $[0,2^{2L})$. Clearly, this map from $[0,2^L) \times [0,2^L) \to [0,2^{2L})$ is not bijective.
I am interested in the size of ...
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Two questions from combinatorics on words
Question 1. Assume that an infinite word $u\in\{0,1\}^{\mathbb Z}$ is not balanced. Is it true that there exists a finite 0-1 word $w$ such that $0w01w1$ or $1w10w0$ is a factor of $u$? Is it true ...
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What prefix and factors determine a ultimately periodic word uniquely
Let $\xi$ be an ultimately periodic sequence, i.e. there exists finite sequences $p, q \in X^*$ such that $\xi = pq^{\omega}$. Does there exists a $n > 0$ such that the prefix of length $n$ and all ...
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Proof of conjecture that permutation-free automata restrict the possible states visitable from a stringset sharing prefixes and infixes
An automaton $\mathcal A = (X, Q, \delta, q_0)$ is called permutation-free iff no word $w \in X^*$ induces a nontrivial permutation of a subset of the states of $\mathcal A$. More formally for any $R ...
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How difficult will it be for me to switch fields (details below) after my Ph.D. in pure mathematics?
I'm a first year postdoctoral researcher, working in pure areas of Riemann surfaces and differential geometry, after just finishing my Ph.D. in 2013. Recently I've also started taking interest in ...
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How to check whether a positive integer can be written as linear combination of given others, where all coefficients are positive?
Let $n$, $k$ and $m_1, \dots, m_k$ be positive integers. Which is the most efficient
algorithm to find out whether there are positive integers $a_1, \dots, a_k$ such that
$n = \sum_{i=1}^k a_i m_i$?
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Are paths in HoTT perhaps just “cost-free” paths?
Homotopy type theory (HoTT) doesn't seem to say anything about "mutations" of values in type $T$, an important concept in computer science. Mutations occur when you "change a value" of some variable ...
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Securing privacy of “who communicates with whom” under Orwell-like conditions
Assume that there is a big and powerful country with an
information-greedy secret service which has backdoors to all internet nodes
throughout the world which permit him to observe all exchanged data ...
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Subsets of $\omega$-regular lanuages accepted by automata with special acceptance condition
Let $\mathcal A = (X, Q, \delta, q_0, F)$ be a deterministic finite automata with the following acceptance condition on infinite words:
The automata accepts $\xi \in X^{\omega}$ with respect to $F$ ...
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Categorical Semantics for Second-Order Logics
I am currently doing some work using a categorical semantics of first-order logic. The specific semantics I am using is due to Andrew Pitts, as described in:
Categorical Logic, Andrew M. Pitts, ...
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Physical Disturbances to Computations [closed]
In this paper, page 7 (160 of the Journal), Fig 3, there is a particularly amusing (not to the authors!) caption:
"... On April 1 of year 2 in the $S_0$ experiment, the computer was hit by a cosmic ...
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Proof of the lower bounds of time of algorithm working [closed]
I have asked this question on math.stackexchange already: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/515920/lower-bounds-on-the-running-time
There are some problems, when there is non-trivial lower ...
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A simple language and systematic computations
The following somewhat popular simple computer language was enjoyed on sci.math, sci.math.research, pl.sci.matematyka, and perhaps before and after at several places (I wish I knew it's exact ...
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Is there any track for proving $D=NP$, besides showing that $D$ has polynomial-bounded universal quantifiers?
Background
By the MRDP theorem, every for every recursively enumerable set $S$, there exists a Diophantine polynomial $p$ such that
$$x \in S \iff \exists y_1, \dots, y_n \in \mathbb{N} \text{ such ...
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Finite window transformations--input+output (pure algebra)
This q. presents a complete approach to my previous q.: Indecomposability of image transformations ...
Let $\ A\ B\ $ be finite sets of cardinality $\ > 1$. Let $\ D:=A\times B$, ...
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Indecomposability of image transformations (pure algebra). Open questions
W-transformations -- definitions
We will consider a class called finite window transformations $\ T:C^\mathbb Z\rightarrow C^\mathbb Z\ $ defined a paragraph below; $\ \mathbb Z\ $ is the ring of ...
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Kolmogorov complexity is the strongest noncomputable function
Yury I. Manin says that Kolmogorov complexity (in some nontrivial sense) is the strongest noncomputable function ("Колмогоровская сложность... невычислима... она во многих интересных смыслах ...
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The relationship between P vs NP problem and “Kolmogorov complexity with time”
Let $P$ - polynomial($P(x) \ge x$), $n \in \mathbb{N}$, $l < log(n)$.
Problem1: "Is there program with length $\le l$ that print $n$ by using $\le P(log(n))$ time?"
Is it Problem1 $\in ...
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Testing functional equivalence
We are looking for the most efficient (most recent, or best) techniques to check if two algebraic expressions (elementary, Calculus-type functions) are equivalent (or if an expression is equivalent to ...
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k-means type clustering of binary data, under capacity constraints per cluster. Proof of NP-hardness?
Suppose you are given a set of $I$ binary vectors in ${\mathbb R}^N$, a number of clusters $k$, and positive integers $\{ c_i \}_{i=1}^k$ where $\sum_{i=1}^k c_i = I$.
I am interested in finding a ...
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Efficiently determine if convex hull contains the unit ball
Given a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, is there an algorithm to determine if the convex hull contains the unit ball centered at the origin in polynomial time? The convex hull itself might have ...
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Main problems on lattice-basis reduction algorithms (such as LLL)?
What are the main open problems on lattice-basis reduction algorithms (such as LLL)? I am looking for problems satisfying the following two conditions:
(a) their solution would likely be of some ...
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What Turing-Complete models of computation carry a notion of time complexity that “agrees” with that of Turing Machines?
Certain models of computation are technically Turing-Complete, but cannot feasibly simulate a Turing Machine within the usual time constraints we hope for. One example of this is Godel's recursive ...
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unbounded complexity
If a language L is decidable, does that imply that the is a computable function f such that L is in O(f(n)) ?
For example what would be the complexity class of the language of "provably halting ...
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Where should I learn about Kolmogorov complexity of overlapping substrings?
I would like to know more about the relationship between the Kolmogorov complexity of a string and that of its substrings. The relation that up to an additive constant, $K(x,y) = K(x) + K(y\ |\ x, ...
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Is there an easy decision algorithm for the inhabitation problem for simple types?
Consider the basic system of simple types usually known as $TA_\lambda$. One can prove that (as a consequence of the Subject Reduction Property and the fact that any typable term is strongly ...
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Rough structure of the double coset space/Graph bijections up to automorphisms
I am dealing with bijective maps $\pi:\Gamma_1\to \Gamma_2$ between two graphs with the same number of vertices $N=O(10)$.
The graphs have a significant automorphism group (these are disconnected ...
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Question about constructing an admissible ideal of a quiver of an algebra with the aid of a computer
Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field and $A$ a finite-dimensional, basic, connected $k$-algebra. Then $A$ is Morita-equivalent to a quotient of a path algebra $kQ/I$ and $I$ is an admissible ...
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Constructing Metrics for specific Topological Spaces, and Refinements of the Cantor-Space in particular
I have a Problem in general, given some some Topological Space $(X, \tau)$ from which I know it is metrisable, how can I find a metric (that is at best in some sence constructive and easy, at the very ...
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Problem to a solution
Consider an NP hard problem $\frak P$ which takes an input of length n
$\frak P$ can be solved partially by a factor $ p_i = p(n,i)\in$ [0,1)... by a polynomial time algorithm $\mathcal A(i)$ ...
