Further Collapses in TFNP

Autor: Göös, Mika, Hollender, Alexandros, Jain, Siddhartha, Maystre, Gilbert, Pires, William, Robere, Robert, Tao, Ran
Rok vydání: 2022
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: We show $\textsf{EOPL}=\textsf{PLS}\cap\textsf{PPAD}$. Here the class $\textsf{EOPL}$ consists of all total search problems that reduce to the End-of-Potential-Line problem, which was introduced in the works by Hubacek and Yogev (SICOMP 2020) and Fearnley et al. (JCSS 2020). In particular, our result yields a new simpler proof of the breakthrough collapse $\textsf{CLS}=\textsf{PLS}\cap\textsf{PPAD}$ by Fearnley et al. (STOC 2021). We also prove a companion result $\textsf{SOPL}=\textsf{PLS}\cap\textsf{PPADS}$, where $\textsf{SOPL}$ is the class associated with the Sink-of-Potential-Line problem.
Databáze: arXiv