Application of statistical mechanics to NP-complete problems in combinatorial optimisation 论文

1986Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General引用 325
Computational Geometry and Mesh GenerationVLSI and FPGA Design TechniquesData Visualization and Analytics

详细信息

发表期刊/会议
Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General
发表日期
1986-06-21
发表年份
1986

关键词

Computational Geometry and Mesh GenerationVLSI and FPGA Design TechniquesData Visualization and Analytics

摘要

Recently developed techniques of the statistical mechanics of random systems are applied to the graph partitioning problem. The averaged cost function is calculated and agrees well with numerical results. The problem bears close resemblance to that of spin glasses. The authors find a spin glass transition in the system, and the low temperature phase space has an ultrametric structure. This sheds light on the nature of hard computation problems.