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The Complexity of Splitting Necklaces and Bisecting Ham Sandwiches

Filos-Ratsikas, Aris
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Goldberg, Paul W.
2019
The 51st Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC 2019)

We resolve the computational complexity of two problems known as NECKLACE-SPLITTING and DISCRETE HAM SANDWICH, showing that they are PPA-complete. For NECKLACE SPLITTING, this result is specific to the important special case in which two thieves share the necklace. We do this via a PPA-completeness result for an approximate version of the CONSENSUS-HALVING problem, strengthening our recent result that the problem is PPA-complete for inverse-exponential precision. At the heart of our construction is a smooth embedding of the high-dimensional Möbius strip in the CONSENSUS-HALVING problem. These results settle the status of PPA as a class that captures the complexity of "natural" problems whose definitions do not incorporate a circuit.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/3313276.3316334
ArXiv ID

1805.12559

Author(s)
Filos-Ratsikas, Aris
Goldberg, Paul W.
Date Issued

2019

Publisher

ACM

Published in
The 51st Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC 2019)
Start page

638

End page

649

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August 14, 2019
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/159890
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