Fully Subexponential Time Approximation Scheme for Product Partition

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Autor principal: Costandin, Marius
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author Costandin, Marius
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contents In this paper we study the Product Partition Problem (PPP), i.e. we are given a set of $n$ natural numbers represented on $m$ bits each and we are asked if a subset exists such that the product of the numbers in the subset equals the product of the numbers not in the subset. Our approach is to obtain the integer factorization of each number. This is the subexponential step. We then form a matrix with the exponents of the primes and propose a novel procedure which modifies the given numbers in such a way that their integer factorization contains sufficient primes to facilitate the search for the solution to the partition problem, while maintaining a similar product. We show that the required time and memory to run the proposed algorithm is subexponential.
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spellingShingle Fully Subexponential Time Approximation Scheme for Product Partition
Costandin, Marius
Data Structures and Algorithms
Optimization and Control
In this paper we study the Product Partition Problem (PPP), i.e. we are given a set of $n$ natural numbers represented on $m$ bits each and we are asked if a subset exists such that the product of the numbers in the subset equals the product of the numbers not in the subset. Our approach is to obtain the integer factorization of each number. This is the subexponential step. We then form a matrix with the exponents of the primes and propose a novel procedure which modifies the given numbers in such a way that their integer factorization contains sufficient primes to facilitate the search for the solution to the partition problem, while maintaining a similar product. We show that the required time and memory to run the proposed algorithm is subexponential.
title Fully Subexponential Time Approximation Scheme for Product Partition
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17692