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- From: marcel@ADS.COM (Marcel Schoppers)
- Subject: Re: Suggstion: (was: Re: P=NP; the proof)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.001406.24951@ads.com>
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:14:06 GMT
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- In article <1ij07vINN2f6@nunki.anu.edu.au> jmr@cs.anu.edu.au (Mike Robson) writes:
- >markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
- >>When you come up with a P=NP proof, first make sure you can translate it to
- >>several of the other known NP-complete problems. Each conversion should lead
- >>to some significant result and insight if the original proof is correct.
- >>Also, you'd get far more attention by simultaneously publicising polynomial
- >>algorithms for 10 to 20 NP-complete problems, and a single tenuous and
- >>highly abstract proof. The conversions are in the literature, so it's
- >>a trivial bookkeeping process to develop 20 algorithms from one.
- >
- >>Second, test the thing out before publicising it, by running the algorithms on
- >>actual cases and then using these test cases to exemplify the algorithms when
- >>you do publicise them.
- >
- >>If you're refereeing journals or otherwise trying to determine the validity
- >>of P=NP proofs, reject all alleged proofs that don't meet the two criteria
- >>above.
- >>Mark
- >
- >Thanks for the suggestion.
- >
- >I've just come up with a fantastic n^12 algorithm for the subset sum
- >problem which translates into a n^24 algorithm for SAT which gives me
- >a n^48 algorithm for graph isomorphism. As soon as I have tested this
- >on a few non trivial pairs of nonisomorphic graphs I'll submit
- >it to CACM (or whatever journal seesm appropriate in 100993).
- >Mike Robson.
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- Better yet: I've just come up with a beautiful n^2 algorithm for graph
- isomorphism, but the actual execution time is 10^100 * n^2 seconds.
- Marcel
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