On a Proof of Inequality of PvsNP
Angelo Raffaele Meo1 Show affiliations
- Department of Computer Science, Politecnico di Totino, Italy
Journal of Computer Science, Volume 19, Issue 1, pp. 87–98 · doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2023.87.98
Abstract
This study is a new version of a previous paper. Its purpose is to simplify some sections of the old version and, above all, to present the proofs of some theorems which had been omitted for the sake of brevity. The analysis discussed in this study and its previous version is based on a well-known NP-complete problem which is called the "satisfiability problem" or "SAT". From SAT a new NP-complete problem, called "core function", derives; this problem is described by a Boolean function of the number of the clauses of SAT. In this study, a new proof is presented according to which the number of gates of the minimal implementation of core function increases with n exponentially. Since the synthesis of the core function is an NP-complete problem, this result can be considered as the proof of the theorem which states that the class P of all the decision problems which can be solved in polynomial time does not coincide with the class NP of the problems for which an answer can be verified in polynomial time.
Licence and reuse
Open access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0), as printed on the article, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original authors and the source. No permission is needed.
How to reuse this articleResponses (0)
About this article
Meo, A. R. (2023). On a Proof of Inequality of PvsNP. Journal of Computer Science, 19(1), 87–98. https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2023.87.98
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Issue
- Volume 19, Issue 1
- Policies
- Editorial independenceUse of generative AIData availabilityAppeals and complaints
- Version
- Version of record
