6.890 Algorithmic Lower Bounds: Fun with Hardness Proofs (Fall '14)

Prof. Erik Demaine     TAs: Sarah Eisenstat, Jayson Lynch


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[+] SAT Reductions. Nintendo games (Super Mario World, glitches, Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Donkey Kong Country, Pokémon); Conway's Phutball (Philosopher's Football), mate-in-1, Checkers; cryptarithms (alphametics); origami flat-foldable crease patterns; vertex-disjoint paths (Numberlink)

This lecture is filled with NP-hardness reductions from 3SAT, including:

Don't worry if you don't know any of the games — I will introduce each.

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http://​arxiv.org/​abs/​1203.1895

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