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- From: br0w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bruno W. Repetto)
- Newsgroups: comp.theory,sci.math
- Subject: Re: NP Completeness Question
- Message-ID: <sf0vZ=q00YUn8_95Ry@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 04:18:51 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.sf0vZ=q00YUn8_95Ry
- Organization: Doctoral student, Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.theory: 13-Nov-92 Re: NP Completeness
- Question by Nicholas R. Swart@phonon
- .
- .
- .
- > Professor E.R. Swart of the Computer Science Department at the University
- > of Guelph, has recently developed a polynomial-sized linear programing
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
- > formulation of the graph isomorphism problem and he has been able to show
- > that with minor modifications, this same formulation can be used to solve
- > the Hamilton tour, clique and other subgraph isomorphism problems.
- >
- > This proves that P=NP and all NP-complete and all other NP problems thus
- > have polynomial time algorithms.
- >
- > So to answer your question, 1 and 2 are probably both polynomial.
- >
- > Nicholas
- > Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Engineering
- > University of Waterloo
- > Waterloo, Ontario
- > CANADA
- > N2L 3G1
- .
- .
- .
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- The math programming model may be polynomial-sized, but it may still
- be a very difficult _integer_ program, and thus not linear. This does
- not prove that P=NP. It will, if it is also shown that the polyhedron
- defined by the formulation constraints has only integer vertices.
-
- As Prof. Panayotis asks in a different message, could you provide
- the relevant reference for this? Dr. Swart gave a proof that P=NP
- in '86 ('87?) that unfortunately turned out to be faulty. Are you
- referring to this?
-
- Bruno. br0w+@andrew.cmu.edu
-