Until the Sun Engulfs the Earth: Lower Bounds in Computational Complexity | Theory Shorts

Until the Sun Engulfs the Earth: Lower Bounds in Computational Complexity | Theory Shorts

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Theory Shorts is a documentary web series that explores topics from the Simons Institute’s research programs.

The second short film in the series, “Until the Sun Engulfs the Earth: Lower Bounds in Computational Complexity,” explores how we know that a problem is impossible to solve.

FURTHER READING
Fruit game optimal algorithm: Hossein Jowhari, Mert Saglam, Gábor Tardos. "Tight bounds for Lp
samplers, finding duplicates in streams, and related problems." PODS 2011: 49-58.

Fruit game optimal lower bound: Michael Kapralov, Jelani Nelson, Jakub Pachocki, Zhengyu Wang, David P. Woodruff, Mobin Yahyazadeh. "Optimal Lower Bounds for Universal Relation, and for Samplers and Finding Duplicates in Streams." FOCS 2017: 475-486.

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