Title :
A natural encoding scheme proved probabilistic polynomial complete
Author :
Vazirani, Umesh V. ; Vazirani, Vijay V. ; Vazirani, Umesh V. ; Vazirani, Umesh V. ; Vazirani, Vijay V. ; Vazirani, Vijay V. ; Vazirani, Vijay V. ; Vazirani, Vijay V.
Abstract :
We prove a natural encoding scheme intractable (by showing it UR-complete, a technique which may be used when a problem does not yield to a proof of NP-completeness). This is the first non number-theoretic problem that is UR-complete but not known to be NP-complete. We also redefine UR-completeness (henceforth refered to as PR-completeness) in probabilistic terms thus making the notion conceptually simpler. Our result suggests that PR-completeness may be a more widely applicable technique than was previously believed.
Keywords :
Encoding; NP-complete problem; Polynomials; Scholarships; Turing machines;
Conference_Titel :
Foundations of Computer Science, 1982. SFCS '08. 23rd Annual Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL, USA
DOI :
10.1109/SFCS.1982.54