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Best known deterministic time complexity lower bound for a natural problem in NP

This answer to Major unsolved problems in theoretical computer science? question states that it is open if a particular problem in NP requires $\Omega(n^2)$ time. Looking at the comments under answer ...
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Major unsolved problems in distributed systems?

Inspired by this question, what are the major problems and existing solutions which needs improvement in (theoretical) distributed systems domain. Something like membership protocols, data ...
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Consequences of Factoring being in P?

Factoring is not known to be NP-complete. This question asked for consequences of Factoring being NP-complete. Curiously, no one asked for consequences of Factoring being in P (maybe because such a ...
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What does research in theoretical computer science involve?

I am trying to understand what is involved in theoretical computer science research. What do theoretical computer scientists do? I know a significant time is spent on teaching, supervising graduate ...
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Polynomial Time Algorithm for Graph Isomorphism Testing [closed]

"Michael I. Troﬁmov" claims that he has found a poly-time algorithm for graph isomorphism, which works for all graphs. The paper is given in arXiv. The companion website gives a proof-of-concept ...
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Are the problems PRIMES, FACTORING known to be P-hard?

Let PRIMES (a.k.a. primality testing) be the problem: Given a natural number $n$, is $n$ a prime number? Let FACTORING be the problem: Given natural numbers $n$, $m$ with $1 \leq m \leq n$, ...
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What are the consequences of factoring being NP-complete?

Are there any references covering this?
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Sources of open problems?

I'm wondering if there are some known sources of open TCS problems? I'm a junior studying math/CS and would like to know of some accessible problems that I could start thinking about! Thanks so much!...
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Is there a list of known problems?

Is there a database of known problems with information about their complexity and algorithms, related problems, references etc that is available to us? [If not, can we make one? I know this is off ...
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Is there a proof that addition is faster than multiplication?

The best upper bound known on the time complexity of multiplication is Martin Fürer's bound $n\log n2^{O(\log^* n)}$, which is more than linear time complexity of addition. Do we have a proof that ...
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Is Quasi-polynomial time in PSPACE?

I had done some search on this but I was not able to find an answer either way. Huck answered it fully. Thanks :)
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Complexity lower bound of finding the factorial of a number

I was wondering about the complexity of the factorial of a number mostly because this problem is not referenced in the complexity books I have read. Two similar problems, Matrix Multiplication and ...
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Evidence integer multiplication is in linear time?

After millenia of quest we have identified two $n$ bit integers can be multiplied in $O(n\log n)$ time. Please refer details in https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-discover-the-perfect-way-...