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  2. P versus NP problem - Wikipedia

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    It is in NP because (given an input) it is simple to check whether M accepts the input by simulating M; it is NP-complete because the verifier for any particular instance of a problem in NP can be encoded as a polynomial-time machine M that takes the solution to be verified as input. Then the question of whether the instance is a yes or no ...

  3. Polynomial-time reduction - Wikipedia

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    A polynomial-time many-one reduction from a problem A to a problem B (both of which are usually required to be decision problems) is a polynomial-time algorithm for transforming inputs to problem A into inputs to problem B, such that the transformed problem has the same output as the original problem.

  4. Lenstra–Lenstra–Lovász lattice basis reduction algorithm

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    Note that although LLL-reduction is well-defined for =, the polynomial-time complexity is guaranteed only for in (,). The LLL algorithm computes LLL-reduced bases. There is no known efficient algorithm to compute a basis in which the basis vectors are as short as possible for lattices of dimensions greater than 4. [ 4 ]

  5. Collocation method - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a collocation method is a method for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations and integral equations.The idea is to choose a finite-dimensional space of candidate solutions (usually polynomials up to a certain degree) and a number of points in the domain (called collocation points), and to select that solution which satisfies the ...

  6. PTAS reduction - Wikipedia

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    In computational complexity theory, a PTAS reduction is an approximation-preserving reduction that is often used to perform reductions between solutions to optimization problems. It preserves the property that a problem has a polynomial time approximation scheme (PTAS) and is used to define completeness for certain classes of optimization ...

  7. Polynomial-time counting reduction - Wikipedia

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    A polynomial-time counting reduction is usually used to transform instances of a known-hard problem into instances of another problem that is to be proven hard. It consists of two functions f {\displaystyle f} and g {\displaystyle g} , both of which must be computable in polynomial time .

  8. Turing reduction - Wikipedia

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    A Turing reduction in which the oracle machine runs in polynomial time is known as a Cook reduction. The first formal definition of relative computability, then called relative reducibility, was given by Alan Turing in 1939 in terms of oracle machines. Later in 1943 and 1952 Stephen Kleene defined an equivalent concept in terms of recursive ...

  9. NP-hardness - Wikipedia

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    In computational complexity theory, a computational problem H is called NP-hard if, for every problem L which can be solved in non-deterministic polynomial-time, there is a polynomial-time reduction from L to H. That is, assuming a solution for H takes 1 unit time, H ' s solution can be used to solve L in polynomial time.