# Questions tagged [reductions]

In computability and complexity, finding mappings between problems that allow solving one problem using a solution of another one. For reduction in programming language theory (e.g. beta-reduction), see [lambda-calculus] or [term-rewriting].

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### Proving NP-Complete problem by reduction of subset-sum

My assignment question as "given a multiset of symbols (letters) L from an alphabet Σ (thus, the same letter may appear in L multiple times), and a set of words W ⊆ Σ' , UseAllLetters asks if it is ...
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### How to prove NP-hardness from scratch?

I am working on a problem of whose complexity is unknown. By the nature of the problem, I cannot use long edges as I please, so 3SAT and variants are almost impossible to use. Finally, I have decided ...
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### If two languages are reducible to the same third language, are they necessarily reducible to one another?

Speaking of polynomial time reductions.
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### Proof by reduction and Turing machines [closed]

This is a practice question I have, but I can't wrap my head around it. ............. Let L = {M | M is a TM that halts with exactly two words on its tape in the form Bw1Bw2B}. B = Blank Position the ...
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### Can't find a mistake in reduction from RE language to a non-RE language

In the book Introduction to Automata Theory there is a question 9.3.4 that asks if a question "whether a language L(M) is infinite" is RE or non-RE? I've seen the answer, that its non-RE, however I ...
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### Variant of TSP: allow each vertex to be visited at most twice

We are given a finite set $V$ and a set of distance $d : V\times V \rightarrow R\ge 0$ and we wish to compute a tour. Suppose we allow each vertex to be visited at most twice in the tour. How can we ...
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### Is finding a minimal set of seed variables for a complete deduction of a system of equations NP-complete?

Suppose we have a set of variables $V$. We also have a set of equations $E$, which are sets of at least two variables. We don't know anything about these equations, except if we know all but one of ...
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### Halting problem in EXP-complete

I have some troubles understanding why the halting problem is in EXP. In Wikipedia the following is written: It is in EXPTIME because a trivial simulation requires O(k) time, and the input k is ...
For a NOT gate if $x_1$ is input and $x_2$ is the corresponding output, I see the equivalent CNF (conjunctive normal form) is $(x_1 \lor x_2) \land (\overline x_1 \lor \overline x_2)$. My ...