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Main Authors: Scheder, Dominik, Tantow, Johannes
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02622
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author Scheder, Dominik
Tantow, Johannes
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Tantow, Johannes
contents Bitstrings can be permuted via permutations and compared via the lexicographic order. In this paper we study the complexity of finding a minimum of a bitstring via given permutations. As a global optima is known to be NP-complete, we study the local optima via the class PLS and show hardness for PLS. Additionally, we show that even for one permutation the global optimization is NP-complete and give a formula that has these permutation as symmetries. This answers an open question inspired from Kolodziejczyk and Thapen and stated at the SAT and interactions seminar in Dagstuhl.
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spellingShingle PLS-completeness of string permutations
Scheder, Dominik
Tantow, Johannes
Computational Complexity
Bitstrings can be permuted via permutations and compared via the lexicographic order. In this paper we study the complexity of finding a minimum of a bitstring via given permutations. As a global optima is known to be NP-complete, we study the local optima via the class PLS and show hardness for PLS. Additionally, we show that even for one permutation the global optimization is NP-complete and give a formula that has these permutation as symmetries. This answers an open question inspired from Kolodziejczyk and Thapen and stated at the SAT and interactions seminar in Dagstuhl.
title PLS-completeness of string permutations
topic Computational Complexity
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02622