PPP-completeness and extremal combinatorics

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11320/23:10467107

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2023.22" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2023.22</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2023.22" target="_blank" >10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2023.22</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

PPP-completeness and extremal combinatorics

Original language description

Many classical theorems in combinatorics establish the emergence of substructures within sufficiently large collections of objects. Well-known examples are Ramsey’s theorem on monochromatic subgraphs and the Erdős-Rado sunflower lemma. Implicit versions of the corresponding total search problems are known to be PWPP-hard under randomized reductions in the case of Ramsey’s theorem and PWPP-hard in the case of the sunflower lemma, here 'implicit' means that the collection is represented by a poly-sized circuit inducing an exponentially large number of objects.nWe show that several other well-known theorems from extremal combinatorics - including Erdős-Ko-Rado, Sperner, and Cayley’s formula – give rise to complete problems for PWPP and PPP. This is in contrast to the Ramsey and Erdős-Rado problems, for which establishing inclusion in PWPP has remained elusive. Besides significantly expanding the set of problems that are complete for PWPP and PPP, our work identifies some key properties of combinatorial proofs of existence that can give rise to completeness for these classes.nOur completeness results rely on efficient encodings for which finding collisions allows extracting the desired substructure. These encodings are made possible by the tightness of the bounds for the problems at hand (tighter than what is known for Ramsey’s theorem and the sunflower lemma). Previous techniques for proving bounds in TFNP invariably made use of structured algorithms. Such algorithms are not known to exist for the theorems considered in this work, as their proofs 'from the book' are non-constructive.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GX19-27871X" target="_blank" >GX19-27871X: Efficient approximation algorithms and circuit complexity</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

14th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2023)

ISBN

978-3-95977-263-1

ISSN

1868-8969

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

22

Publisher name

Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik

Place of publication

Dagstuhl

Event location

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Event date

Jan 10, 2023

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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