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Some thoughts on journals, refereeing, and the P vs NP problem


A guest post by Eric Allender prompted by an  (incorrect) P ≠ NP proof   recently published  in Springer Nature's Frontiers of Computer Scie...

A guest post by Eric Allender prompted by an (incorrect) P ≠ NP proof recently published in Springer Nature's Frontiers of Computer Science. For a time, I served as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Computation Theory, and in this role I had to deal regularly with submissions that claimed to resolve the P vs NP problem. However, Ryan Williams presented an algorithm more than two decades ago that runs in time \(O(d^{(0.8)n})\) in this special case, contradicting the lower bound claimed in the article.

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