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Worst-Case and Average-Case Hardness of Hypercycle and Database Problems

2025/04/25 by Fu, Cheng-Hao, Lincoln, Andrea, Reyes, Rene · 1 citation
#Computational Complexity (cs.CC) #FOS: Computer and information sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2504.18640

Abstract

In this paper we present tight lower-bounds and new upper-bounds for hypergraph and database problems. We give tight lower-bounds for finding minimum hypercycles. We give tight lower-bounds for a substantial regime of unweighted hypercycle. We also give a new faster algorithm for longer unweighted hypercycles. We give a worst-case to average-case reduction from detecting a subgraph of a hypergraph in the worst-case to counting subgraphs of hypergraphs in the average-case. We demonstrate two applications of this worst-case to average-case reduction, which result in average-case lower bounds for counting hypercycles in random hypergraphs and queries in average-case databases. Our tight upper and lower bounds for hypercycle detection in the worst-case have immediate implications for the average-case via our worst-case to average-case reductions.

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