Solving 3CNF-SAT and HPP in linear time using WWW

  • Authors:
  • Florin Manea;Carlos Martín-Vide;Victor Mitrana

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania;Research Group in Mathematical Linguistics, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain;Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

  • Venue:
  • MCU'04 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Machines, Computations, and Universality
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We propose linear time solutions to two much celebrated NP-complete problems, namely the 3CNF-SAT and the directed Hamiltonian Path Problem (HPP), based on AHNEPs having all resources (size, number of rules and symbols) linearly bounded by the size of the given instance. Surprisingly enough, the time for solving HPP does not depend on the number of edges of the given graph. Finally, we discuss a possible real life implementation, not of biological inspiration as one may expect according to the roots of AHNEPs, but using the facilities of the World Wide Web.