Title
More consequences of falsifying SETH and the orthogonal vectors conjecture.
Abstract
The Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis and the OV-conjecture are two popular hardness assumptions used to prove a plethora of lower bounds, especially in the realm of polynomial-time algorithms. The OV-conjecture in moderate dimension states there is no ε>0 for which an O(N2−ε) poly(D) time algorithm can decide whether there is a pair of orthogonal vectors in a given set of size N that contains D-dimensional binary vectors. We strengthen the evidence for these hardness assumptions. In particular, we show that if the OV-conjecture fails, then two problems for which we are far from obtaining even tiny improvements over exhaustive search would have surprisingly fast algorithms. If the OV conjecture is false, then there is a fixed ε>0 such that: - For all d and all large enough k, there is a randomized algorithm that takes O(n(1−ε)k) time to solve the Zero-Weight-k-Clique and Min-Weight-k-Clique problems on d-hypergraphs with n vertices. As a consequence, the OV-conjecture is implied by the Weighted Clique conjecture. - For all c, the satisfiability of sparse TC1 circuits on n inputs (that is, circuits with cn wires, depth clogn, and negation, AND, OR, and threshold gates) can be computed in time O((2−ε)n).
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3188745.3188938
STOC '18: Symposium on Theory of Computing Los Angeles CA USA June, 2018
Keywords
DocType
Volume
fine-grained complexity,OV,clique,satisfiability,threshold circuits
Journal
abs/1805.08554
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0737-8017
978-1-4503-5559-9
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
38
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Abboud, A.141125.21
Karl Bringmann214719.84
Holger Dell322016.74
Jesper Nederlof429424.22