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- From: pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt)
- Subject: Re: NP Completeness Question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.154406.4800@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1dpkkeINNad2@mizar.usc.edu> <BxMu2J.2JD@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:44:06 GMT
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- In article <BxMu2J.2JD@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> nrswart@phonon.uwaterloo.ca (Nicholas R. Swart) writes:
- >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.
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- Papadimitriou showed in 1975 an exponential lower bound on
- simplex-based solutions of the travelling salesman problem. Since
- linear programming solves simplex problems (and indeed has polynomial
- time solutions), the above account renders the claim very unconvincing
- by making no mention of an additional trick.
- --
- Vaughan Pratt A fallacy is worth a thousand steps.
-