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Publications (151)

cs.CC2011

Frugal and Truthful Auctions for Vertex Covers, Flows, and Cuts

David Kempe, Mahyar Salek, Cristopher Moore

We study truthful mechanisms for hiring a team of agents in three classes of set systems: Vertex Cover auctions, k-flow auctions, and cut auctions. For Vertex Cover auctions, the v…

cs.CC2014

Lower Bounds on the Critical Density in the Hard Disk Model via Optimized Metrics

Thomas P. Hayes, Cristopher Moore

We prove a new lower bound on the critical density of the hard disk model, i.e., the density below which it is possible to efficiently sample random configurations of no…

cs.AI2005

Generating Hard Satisfiable Formulas by Hiding Solutions Deceptively

Haixia Jia, Cristopher Moore, Doug Strain

To test incomplete search algorithms for constraint satisfaction problems such as 3-SAT, we need a source of hard, but satisfiable, benchmark instances. A simple way to do this is…

cs.CR2010

The McEliece Cryptosystem Resists Quantum Fourier Sampling Attacks

Hang Dinh, Cristopher Moore, Alexander Russell

Quantum computers can break the RSA and El Gamal public-key cryptosystems, since they can factor integers and extract discrete logarithms. If we believe that quantum computers will…

math.PR2026

Gurau's spectral density is not a probability measure for individual real symmetric tensors

Maximilian Jerdee, Dmitriy Kunisky, Cristopher Moore

Gurau (2020) proposed a generalization of the trace of the matrix resolvent to tensors of higher order, and recent work has explored analogs of the Wigner semicircle and Marchenko-…

math.PR2015

Spatial Mixing for Independent Sets in Poisson Random Trees

Varsha Dani, Thomas P. Hayes, Cristopher Moore

We consider correlation decay in the hard-core model with fugacity on a rooted tree in which the arity of each vertex is independently Poisson distributed with mean . S…