• Media type: Text; E-Article; Electronic Conference Proceeding
  • Title: Unique End of Potential Line
  • Contributor: Fearnley, John [Author]; Gordon, Spencer [Author]; Mehta, Ruta [Author]; Savani, Rahul [Author]
  • Published: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2019
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2019.56
  • Keywords: contraction map ; total search problems ; P-matrix linear complementarity problem ; continuous local search ; TFNP ; unique sink orientation
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  • Description: The complexity class CLS was proposed by Daskalakis and Papadimitriou in 2011 to understand the complexity of important NP search problems that admit both path following and potential optimizing algorithms. Here we identify a subclass of CLS - called UniqueEOPL - that applies a more specific combinatorial principle that guarantees unique solutions. We show that UniqueEOPL contains several important problems such as the P-matrix Linear Complementarity Problem, finding Fixed Point of Contraction Maps, and solving Unique Sink Orientations (USOs). UniqueEOPL seems to a proper subclass of CLS and looks more likely to be the right class for the problems of interest. We identify a problem - closely related to solving contraction maps and USOs - that is complete for UniqueEOPL. Our results also give the fastest randomised algorithm for P-matrix LCP.
  • Access State: Open Access