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For many combinatorial optimization problems a polynomial-time algorithm is known; the most important ones are presented in this book. However, there are also many important problems for which no polynomial-time algorithm is known. Although we cannot prove that none exists we can show that a polynomial-time algorithm for one “hard” (more precisely: NP-hard) problem would imply a polynomialtime algorithm for almost all problems discussed in this book (more precisely: all NP-easy problems).
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(2008). NP-Completeness. In: Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Combinatorics, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71844-4_15
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