论文标题

反抗重力:哈纳诺难题的复杂性

Defying Gravity: The Complexity of the Hanano Puzzle

论文作者

Chavrimootoo, Michael C.

论文摘要

使用可见性表示的概念,我们的论文建立了非确定性约束逻辑(NCL)问题的新属性(一个非常方便的问题,可以证明具有推动块的可逆游戏的PSPACE硬度非常方便)。直接使用此属性会引入显示Pspace硬度所需的小工具数量的爆炸,但是我们展示了如何将该数字从32下降到只有三个,而在特定情况下则降到两个!我们将其作为迈向更广泛,更一般的框架来研究具有不可逆转的重力的游戏的一步,并使用此连接指导间接多项式时间从NCL问题到Hanano拼图(这是NP-HARD) - 实际上是PSPACE完整的。

Using the notion of visibility representations, our paper establishes a new property of instances of the Nondeterministic Constraint Logic (NCL) problem (a PSPACE-complete problem that is very convenient to prove the PSPACE-hardness of reversible games with pushing blocks). Direct use of this property introduces an explosion in the number of gadgets needed to show PSPACE-hardness, but we show how to bring that number from 32 down to only three in general, and down to two in a specific case! We propose it as a step towards a broader and more general framework for studying games with irreversible gravity, and use this connection to guide an indirect polynomial-time many-one reduction from the NCL problem to the Hanano Puzzle -- which is NP-hard -- to prove it is in fact PSPACE-complete.

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