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5 papers

cs.CC2026

Improved Quantum Algorithms for Subset Sum and -SUM

Nikolai Chukhin, Alexander S. Kulikov, Maksim Levitskii +1

The Subset Sum problem asks whether, given integers and a target, some subset of the integers sums to the target. Its best known worst-case running time is (Horo…

cs.CC2026

If Edge Coloring is Hard under SETH, then SETH is False

Alexander S. Kulikov, Ivan Mihajlin

The Edge Coloring problem is notoriously hard: it is still unknown whether it can be solved in time (let alone ), where is the number of nodes of the inp…

cs.CC2026

Complexity of the Graph Homomorphism Problem w.r.t. Degeneracy

Grigorii Braulov, Nikolai Chukhin, Alexander S. Kulikov +1

The graph homomorphism problem HOM is: given an -vertex source graph and an -vertex target graph , is there a mapping from to that preserves edges? A str…

cs.CC2026

Conditional Complexity Hardness: Monotone Circuit Size, Matrix Rigidity, and Tensor Rank

Nikolai Chukhin, Alexander S. Kulikov, Ivan Mihajlin +1

Proving complexity lower bounds remains a challenging task: we only know how to prove conditional uniform lower bounds and nonuniform lower bounds in restricted circuit models. Wil…

cs.CC2025

Toward Better Depth Lower Bounds: Strong Composition of XOR and a Random Function

Nikolai Chukhin, Alexander S. Kulikov, Ivan Mihajlin

Proving formula depth lower bounds is a fundamental challenge in complexity theory, with the strongest known bound of established by Hastad over 25 years ago. Th…