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- From: neto@cs.toronto.edu (David Neto)
- Subject: Re: P=NP; the proof
- Message-ID: <93Jan6.131544est.47610@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
- References: <1ht5atINN4iu@nunki.anu.edu.au> <1i3ferINN53m@nunki.anu.edu.au> <1993Jan6.161440.25658@eng.cam.ac.uk>
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- Date: 6 Jan 93 18:16:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.161440.25658@eng.cam.ac.uk> ptb@eng.cam.ac.uk (P.T. Breuer) writes:
- >jmr@cs.anu.edu.au (Mike Robson) writes:
- >> Who can shoot down this alleged proof that P=NP?
- >> The ideas are taken from the Gismondi and Swart papers but the
- >> algorithms are simplified and the proofs are completely new.
- >> If you haven't read their papers, you will probably not follow this.
- >> I'll post a more detailed version soon unless anyone has convinced
- >> me I'm wrong (in which case I will post a retraction).
- >> The following document is in eqn|troff -ms format and is
- >> copyright (C) J. M. Robson 1993.
- >> [troff omitted]
- >
- >For my own edification, I translated Mikes document into LaTeX.
- >I added some comments to the proofs. I believe Mike made a serious
- >mistake in the proof of 2, getting confused over left/right inverses of
- >matrices -- the transformational view is much more helpful -- but I
- >think I've mended it. Claims 1 and 2 seem to be proved now. I haven't
- >checked 3 and 4. Are we getting closer to P=NP?
- >
-
- I just want to point out a couple of typos.
-
- The first typo occurs in the P.T. Breuer's inserted comments in the proof
- of Claim 2.
- >[text omitted]
- >So $S+x\delta S$ solves (\ref{C 1}) for any $x$. By slowly increasing
- >the size of $x$ from zero and changing $N$ to $N+\delta N=M(S+x\delta S)$
- >[text omitted]
-
- I believe the above should read
- "...changing $N$ to $N+\delta N=M^{-1}(S+x\delta S)$".
- However, I don't follow his argument this when it is changed in this
- way, but that may just be my own problem.
-
- The second typo occurs in the proof of Claim 3.
- >[text omitted]
- >If $B_i =0$, then $T_i A =0$ and clearly also $Q_i A =0$ also
- >since the positive elements of $Q_i$ are a subset of those of $A_i$.
- >[text omitted]
-
- The above should read "... are a subset of those of $T_i$."
- Mike Robson's posting had this typo in it as well. I _do_ follow this
- argument when it is changed in this way.
-
-
- In any case, this is an interesting development.
-
-
- -- David Neto
- neto@cs.utoronto.ca
-