On Problems Equivalent to (min,+)-Convolution

DOI10.4230/LIPICS.ICALP.2017.22zbMATH Open1441.68070arXiv1702.07669OpenAlexW2946474232MaRDI QIDQ5111352FDOQ5111352

Karol Węgrzycki, Marcin Mucha, Michał Włodarczyk, Marek Cygan

Publication date: 27 May 2020

Abstract: In recent years, significant progress has been made in explaining the apparent hardness of improving upon the naive solutions for many fundamental polynomially solvable problems. This progress has come in the form of conditional lower bounds -- reductions from a problem assumed to be hard. The hard problems include 3SUM, All-Pairs Shortest Path, SAT, Orthogonal Vectors, and others. In the $(min,+)$-convolution problem, the goal is to compute a sequence $(c[i]{)}_{i=0}^{n-1}$, where $c[k]=$ $mi{n}_{i=0,ldots,k}$ $$ $+$ $$, given sequences $(a[i]{)}_{i=0}^{n-1}$ and $(b[i]{)}_{i=0}^{n-1}$. This can easily be done in $O(n^2)$ time, but no $O(n^{2-varepsilon})$ algorithm is known for $varepsilon>0$. In this paper, we undertake a systematic study of the $(min,+)$-convolution problem as a hardness assumption. First, we establish the equivalence of this problem to a group of other problems, including variants of the classic knapsack problem and problems related to subadditive sequences. The $(min,+)$-convolution problem has been used as a building block in algorithms for many problems, notably problems in stringology. It has also appeared as an ad hoc hardness assumption. Second, we investigate some of these connections and provide new reductions and other results. We also explain why replacing this assumption with the SETH might not be possible for some problems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07669

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zbMATH Keywords

knapsackconditional lower boundsfine-grained complexitysubquadratic equivalence\((\min,+)\)-convolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25) Combinatorial optimization (90C27) Computational difficulty of problems (lower bounds, completeness, difficulty of approximation, etc.) (68Q17) Algorithms on strings (68W32)

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