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基本説明
Intended to be a standard reference to statistical physics methods in computer science theory, particularly in relation to the study of phase transitions in combinatorial problems.
Full Description
Computer science and physics have been closely linked since the birth of modern computing. In recent years, an interdisciplinary area has blossomed at the junction of these fields, connecting insights from statistical physics with basic computational challenges. Researchers have successfully applied techniques from the study of phase transitions to analyze NP-complete problems such as satisfiability and graph coloring. This is leading to a new understanding of the structure of these problems, and of how algorithms perform on them.
Computational Complexity and Statistical Physics will serve as a standard reference and pedagogical aid to statistical physics methods in computer science, with a particular focus on phase transitions in combinatorial problems. Addressed to a broad range of readers, the book includes substantial background material along with current research by leading computer scientists, mathematicians, and physicists. It will prepare students and researchers from all of these fields to contribute to this exciting area.
Contents
Preface ; Part 1: Fundamentals ; 1. Introduction: Where Statistical Physics Meets Computation ; 2. Threshold Phenomena and Influence: Perspectives from Mathematics, Computer Science, and Economics ; Part 2: Statistical Physics and Algorithms ; 3. Analyzing Search Algorithms with Physical Methods ; 4. Constraint Satisfaction by Survey Propagation ; 5. The Easiest Hard Problem: Number Partitioning ; 6. Ground States, Energy Landscape and Low-Temperature Dynamics of plus/minus Spin Glasses ; Part 3: Identifying the Threshold ; 7. The Satisfiability Threshold Conjecture: Techniques Behind Upper Bound Improvements ; 8. Proving Conditional Randomness Using the Principle of Deferred Decisions ; 9. The Phase Transition in the Random HornSAT Problem ; Part 4: Extensions and Applications ; 10. Phase Transitions for Quantum Search Algorithms ; 11. Scalability, Random Surfaces and Synchronized Computing Networks ; 12. Combinatorics of Genotype-Phenotype Maps: An RNA Case Study ; 13. Towards a Predictive Computational Complexity Theory for Periodically Specified Problems: A Survey ; Bibliography ; Index