Random independent sets in graphs arise, for example, in statistical physics, in the hard-core model of a gas. In 1997, Luby and Vigoda described a rapidly mixing Markov chain for...
The (unweighted) Maximum Satisfiability problem (MaxSat) is: given a boolean formula in conjunctive normal form, find a truth assignment that satisfies the most number of clauses....
We study the computational problem "find the value of the quantified formula obtained by quantifying the variables in a sum of terms." The "sum" can be based o...