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- From: jmr@cs.anu.edu.au (Mike Robson)
- Newsgroups: comp.theory
- Subject: Re: Silence on P=NP
- Date: 24 Nov 1992 09:10:24 +1100
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- leen@fwi.uva.nl (Leen Torenvliet) writes:
-
- >orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:
-
- >>The silence on the Swart & Gismondi proof of P=NP is deafening.
- >>Will no one venture an opinion? My knowledge of linear programming
- >>is insufficient to the task.
-
- >So is about everybody's it seems. I guess we're all waiting for some
-
- If noone out there has understood the argument well enough yet to accept it
- or point out a flaw, why don't we pool our efforts to try and elucidate it?
-
- Here's my comment to start the ball rolling:
- I am trying to understand the Graph Isomorphism paper first since that is the
- basis for the other two; I am fine as far as the end of page 5 where they talk
- about `a larger convex set $C_1$'. This seems to be the definition of $C_1$
- which crops up again significantly but I don't know which `larger convex set'
- it is supposed to be. Anybody like to clarify?
-
-
- >some polyhedral magician like Lex Schrijver or Laszlo Lovasz
- >to wake up and show us the error in the proof (I sure hope there
- >is one!). I know that Lex is incommunicado until at least december 1,
-
- Why?? Apart from the dented pride of all the people who have been convinced
- that P!=NP, wouldn't the world be much more exciting with a O(n^15) or so
- algorithm for SAT than with the knowledge that there wasn't one?
-
-
- >but I have no knowledge on the whereabouts of prof Lovasz.
- >Leen
- >--
- >******************************************************************************
- >* Leen Torenvliet / His train of thoughts is stil *
- >* University of Amsterdam / boarding at the station. *
- >* Department of Mathematics and Comp. Sci./ (Calvin & Hobbes) *
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-
- Dr J. M. (Mike) Robson,
- Department of Computer Science,
- Australian National University,
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