New barriers in complexity theory: on the solvability complexity index and the towers of algorithms

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2015.08.002MaRDI QIDQ889488zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan Ben-Artzi, Anders C. Hansen, Olavi Nevanlinna, M. Seidel

Publication date 6 November 2015

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.03280

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25) Computation over the reals, computable analysis (03D78) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) General topics in the theory of algorithms (68W01) General topics in the theory of computing (68Q01)

Abstract: This paper establishes some of the fundamental barriers in the theory of computations and finally settles the long-standing computational spectral problem. That is to determine the existence of algorithms that can compute spectra $mathrmsp(A)$ of classes of bounded operators $A={a_{ij}}_{i,jinmathbbN}inmathcalB(l^2(mathbbN))$, given the matrix elements ${a_{ij}}_{i,jinmathbbN}$, that are sharp in the sense that they achieve the boundary of what a digital computer can achieve. Similarly, for a Schr"odinger operator $H=-Delta+V$, determine the existence of algorithms that can compute the spectrum $mathrmsp(H)$ given point samples of the potential function $V$. In order to solve these problems, we establish the Solvability Complexity Index (SCI) hierarchy and provide a collection of new algorithms that allow for problems that were previously out of reach. The SCI is the smallest number of limits needed in the computation, yielding a classification hierarchy for all types of problems in computational mathematics that determines the boundaries of what computers can achieve in scientific computing. In addition, the SCI hierarchy provides classifications of computational problems that can be used in computer-assisted proofs. The SCI hierarchy captures many key computational issues in the history of mathematics including the insolvability of the quintic, Smale's problem on the existence of iterative generally convergent algorithm for polynomial root finding, the computational spectral problem, inverse problems, optimisation etc.

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