05 Fakultät Informatik, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik

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Subject: search.filters.subject.004End date: 2023Author: search.filters.author.Weiß, ArminPublication Type: search.filters.UBSTyp.Zeitschriftenartikel

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    Equation satisfiability in solvable groups
    (2022) Idziak, Paweł; Kawałek, Piotr; Krzaczkowski, Jacek; Weiß, Armin
    The study of the complexity of the equation satisfiability problem in finite groups had been initiated by Goldmann and Russell in (Inf. Comput. 178 (1), 253-262, 10 ) where they showed that this problem is in P for nilpotent groups while it is NP -complete for non-solvable groups. Since then, several results have appeared showing that the problem can be solved in polynomial time in certain solvable groups G having a nilpotent normal subgroup H with nilpotent factor G / H . This paper shows that such a normal subgroup must exist in each finite group with equation satisfiability solvable in polynomial time, unless the Exponential Time Hypothesis fails.
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    On the average case of MergeInsertion
    (2020) Stober, Florian; Weiß, Armin
    MergeInsertion, also known as the Ford-Johnson algorithm, is a sorting algorithm which, up to today, for many input sizes achieves the best known upper bound on the number of comparisons. Indeed, it gets extremely close to the information-theoretic lower bound. While the worst-case behavior is well understood, only little is known about the average case. This work takes a closer look at the average case behavior. In particular, we establish an upper bound of nlogn-1.4005n+o(n) comparisons. We also give an exact description of the probability distribution of the length of the chain a given element is inserted into and use it to approximate the average number of comparisons numerically. Moreover, we compute the exact average number of comparisons for n up to 148. Furthermore, we experimentally explore the impact of different decision trees for binary insertion. To conclude, we conduct experiments showing that a slightly different insertion order leads to a better average case and we compare the algorithm to Manacher’s combination of merging and MergeInsertion as well as to the recent combined algorithm with (1,2)-Insertionsort by Iwama and Teruyama.
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    Parallel algorithms for power circuits and the word problem of the Baumslag group
    (2023) Mattes, Caroline; Weiß, Armin
    Power circuits have been introduced in 2012 by Myasnikov, Ushakov and Won as a data structure for non-elementarily compressed integers supporting the arithmetic operations addition and (x,y)↦x·2y. The same authors applied power circuits to give a polynomial time solution to the word problem of the Baumslag group, which has a non-elementary Dehn function. In this work, we examine power circuits and the word problem of the Baumslag group under parallel complexity aspects. In particular, we establish that the word problem of the Baumslag group can be solved in NC -even though one of the essential steps is to compare two integers given by power circuits and this, in general, is shown to be P -complete. The key observation is that the depth of the occurring power circuits is logarithmic and such power circuits can be compared in NC .