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Context: # Algorithms and Complexity

**Herbert S. Wilf**  
University of Pennsylvania  
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6395  

## Copyright Notice

Copyright © 1994 by Herbert S. Wilf. This material may be reproduced for any educational purpose; multiple copies may be made for classes, etc. Charges, if any, for reproduced copies must be just enough to recover reasonable costs of reproduction. Reproduction for commercial purposes is prohibited. This cover page must be included in all distributed copies.

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## Internet Edition, Summer 1994

This edition of *Algorithms and Complexity* is available at the web site [http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~wilf](http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~wilf). It may be taken at no charge by all interested persons. Comments and corrections are welcome and should be sent to [wilf@math.upenn.edu](mailto:wilf@math.upenn.edu).

A Second Edition of this book was published in 2003 and can be purchased now. The Second Edition contains solutions to most of the exercises.
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## Chapter 0: What This Book Is About  
0.1 Background  
0.2 Hard vs. easy problems  
0.3 A preview  

## Chapter 1: Mathematical Preliminaries  
1.1 Orders of magnitude  
1.2 Positional number systems  
1.3 Manipulations with series  
1.4 Recurrence relations  
1.5 Counting  
1.6 Graphs  

## Chapter 2: Recursive Algorithms  
2.1 Introduction  
2.2 Quicksort  
2.3 Recursive graph algorithms  
2.4 Fast matrix multiplication  
2.5 The discrete Fourier transform  
2.6 Applications of the FFT  
2.7 A review  

## Chapter 3: The Network Flow Problem  
3.1 Introduction  
3.2 Algorithms for the network flow problem  
3.3 The algorithm of Ford and Fulkerson  
3.4 The max-flow min-cut theorem  
3.5 The complexity of the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm  
3.6 Layered networks  
3.7 The MPM Algorithm  
3.8 Applications of network flow  

## Chapter 4: Algorithms in the Theory of Numbers  
4.1 Preliminaries  
4.2 The greatest common divisor  
4.3 The extended Euclidean algorithm  
4.4 Primality testing  
4.5 Interlude: the ring of integers modulo n  
4.6 Pseudoprimality tests  
4.7 Proof of goodness of the strong pseudoprimality test  
4.8 Factoring and cryptography  
4.9 Factoring large integers  
4.10 Proving primality
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## 5.1 Introduction ................................................ 104  
## 5.2 Turing machines ............................................. 109  
## 5.3 Cook's theorem .............................................. 112  
## 5.4 Some other NP-complete problems ............................. 116  
## 5.5 Half a loaf .................................................. 119  
## 5.6 Backtracking (I): independent sets ........................... 122  
## 5.7 Backtracking (II): graph coloring ............................ 124  
## 5.8 Approximate algorithms for hard problems ..................... 128
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Context: # Preface

For the past several years, mathematics majors in the computing track at the University of Pennsylvania have taken a course in continuous algorithms (numerical analysis) in the junior year, and in discrete algorithms in the senior year. This book has grown out of the senior course as I have been teaching it recently. It has also been tried out on a large class of computer science and mathematics majors, including seniors and graduate students, with good results.

Selection by the instructor of topics of interest will be very important, because normally I've found that I can't cover anywhere near all of this material in a semester. A reasonable choice for a first try might be to begin with Chapter 2 (recursive algorithms) which contains lots of motivation. Then, as new ideas are needed in Chapter 2, one might delve into the appropriate sections of Chapter 1 to get the concepts and techniques well in hand. After Chapter 2, Chapter 4, on number theory, discusses material that is extremely attractive, and surprisingly pure and applicable at the same time. Chapter 5 would be next, since the foundations would then all be in place. Finally, material from Chapter 3, which is rather independent of the rest of the book, but is strongly connected to combinatorial algorithms in general, might be studied as time permits.

Throughout the book, there are opportunities to ask students to write programs and get them running. These are not mentioned explicitly, with a few exceptions, but will be obvious when encountered. Students should all have the experience of writing, debugging, and using a program that is nontrivially recursive, for example. The concept of recursion is subtle and powerful, and is helped a lot by hands-on practice. Any of the algorithms of Chapter 2 would be suitable for this purpose. The recursive graph algorithms are particularly recommended since they are usually quite foreign to students’ previous experience and therefore have great learning value.

In addition to the exercises that appear in this book, student assignments might consist of writing occasional programs, as well as delivering reports in class on assigned readings. The latter might be found among the references cited in the bibliographies in each chapter.

I am indebted first of all to the students on whom I worked out these ideas, and to a number of colleagues for their helpful advice and friendly criticism. Among the latter I will mention Richard Brault, Daniel Kleitman, Albert Nijenhuis, Robert Tarjan, and Alan Tucker. For the no-doubt-numerous shortcomings that remain, I accept full responsibility.

This book was typeset in TeX. To the extent that it’s a delight to look at, thank TeX. For the deficiencies in its appearance, thank my limitations as a typesetter. It was, however, a pleasure for me to have had the chance to typeset my own book. My thanks to the Computer Science department of the University of Pennsylvania, and particularly to Aravind Joshi, for generously allowing me the use of TeX facilities.

Herbert S. Wilf
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## 0.1 Background

An algorithm is a method for solving a class of problems on a computer. The complexity of an algorithm is the cost, measured in running time, or storage, or whatever units are relevant, of using the algorithm to solve one of those problems.

This book is about algorithms and complexity, and so it is about methods for solving problems on computers and the costs (usually the running time) of using those methods.

Computing takes time. Some problems take a very long time, others can be done quickly. Some problems seem to take a long time, and then someone discovers a faster way to do them (a ‘faster algorithm’). The study of the amount of computational effort that is needed in order to perform certain kinds of computations is the study of computational complexity.

Naturally, we would expect that a computing problem for which millions of bits of input data are required would probably take longer than another problem that needs only a few items of input. So the time complexity of a calculation is measured by expressing the running time of the calculation as a function of some measure of the amount of data that is needed to describe the problem to the computer.

For instance, think about this statement: “I just bought a matrix inversion program, and it can invert an \( n \times n \) matrix in just \( 1.2n^3 \) minutes.” We see here a typical description of the complexity of a certain algorithm. The running time of the program is being given as a function of the size of the input matrix.

A faster program for the same job might run in \( 0.8n^3 \) minutes for an \( n \times n \) matrix. If someone were to make a really important discovery (see section 2.4), then maybe we could actually lower the exponent, instead of merely shaving the multiplicative constant. Thus, a program that would invert an \( n \times n \) matrix in only \( n^2 \log n \) minutes would represent a striking improvement of the state of the art.

For the purposes of this book, a computation that is guaranteed to take at most \( c n^3 \) time for input of size \( n \) will be thought of as 'easy' computation. One that needs at most \( n^{10} \) time is also easy. If a certain calculation on an \( n \times n \) matrix were to require \( 2^n \) minutes, then that would be a 'hard' problem. Naturally some of the computations that we are calling 'easy' may take a very long time to run, but still, from our present point of view the important distinction to maintain will be the polynomial time guarantee or lack of it.

The general rule is that if the running time is not a polynomial function of the amount of input data, then the calculation is an easy one; otherwise it’s hard.

Many problems in computer science are known to be easy. To convince someone that a problem is easy, it is enough to describe a fast method for solving that problem. To convince someone that a problem is hard is hard, because you will have to prove to them that it is impossible to find a fast way of doing the calculation. It will not be enough to point to a particular algorithm and to lament its slowness. After all, that algorithm may be slow, but maybe there’s a faster way.

Matrix inversion is easy. The familiar Gaussian elimination method can invert an \( n \times n \) matrix in time of at most \( O(n^3) \).

To give an example of a hard computational problem we have to go far afield. One interesting one is called the 'tiling problem'. Suppose we are given infinitely many identical floor tiles, each shaped like a regular hexagon. Then we can tile the whole plane with them, i.e., we can cover the plane with no empty spaces left over. This can also be done if the tiles are identical rectangles, but not if they are regular hexagons.

In Fig. 0.1 we show a tiling of the plane by identical rectangles, and in Fig. 0.2 is a tiling by regular hexagons.

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1. See, for instance, Martin Gardner’s article in *Scientific American*, January 1977, pp. 110-121.

2. R. Berger, “The undecidability of the domino problem,” *Amer. Math. Soc.* 66 (1966), Amer.

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Context: So in some problems whose input bit string has \( B \) bits, the algorithm might operate in time \( 6B \) and on others it might need, say, \( 100 \log B \) time units, and for still other problems instances of length \( B \) the algorithm might need \( 5B^2 \) time units to get the job done.

Well then, what would the warranty card say? I would have to pick out the worst possibility; otherwise the guarantee wouldn’t be valid. It would assure me that if the input problem instance can be described by \( B \) bits, then an answer will appear after at most \( 5B^2 \) time units. Hence, a performance guarantee is equivalent to an estimation of the worst possible scenario: the longest possible calculation that might ensue if \( B \) were input to the program.

### Worst-case bounds

Worst-case bounds are the most common kind, but there are other kinds of bounds for running time. We might give an average case bound instead (see section 5.7). That wouldn’t guarantee performance no worse than \( \varepsilon \); it would state that if the performance is averaged over all possible input bit strings of \( B \) bits, then the average amount of computing time will be so-and-so (as a function of \( B \)).

Now let’s talk about the difference between easy and hard computational problems and between fast and slow algorithms.

A warranty that would not guarantee ‘fast’ performance would contain some function of \( B \) that grows faster than any polynomial, like \( 2^B \), for instance, or like \( n^{\log n} \), etc. It is the polynomial time vs. necessarily polynomial time guarantee that makes the difference between the easy and hard classes of problems, or between the fast and the slow algorithms.

It is highly desirable to work with algorithms such that we can give a performance guarantee for running time that is at most a polynomial function of the number of bits of input.

An algorithm is slow if, whatever polynomial \( P \) we think of, there exists arbitrary large values of \( B \), such that the input data strings of \( B \) bits, that cause the algorithm to do more than \( P(B) \) units of work.

A computational problem is **intractable** if it can be proved that there is no fast algorithm for it.

### Example 3

Here is a familiar computational problem and a method, or algorithm, for solving it. Let’s see if the method has a polynomial time guarantee or not.

The problem is this. Let \( n \) be a given integer. We want to find out if \( n \) is prime. The method that we choose is the following. For each integer \( n = 2, 3, \ldots, \sqrt{n} \) we ask if \( n \) divides (evenly into) \( n \). If all the answers are ‘No,’ then we declare \( n \) to be a prime number; else it is composite.

In this way, we look at the computational complexity of this algorithm. Therefore, we are going to find out how much work is involved in doing the test. For a given integer \( n \) that we have to do can be measured in units of divisions of a whole number by another whole number. In those units, we obviously will do about \( \sqrt{n} \) units of work.

It seems as though this is a tractable problem, because, after all, \( \sqrt{n} \) is of polynomial growth in \( n \). For instance, we do less than \( n \) units of work, and that’s certainly a polynomial in \( n \), isn’t it? So, according to our definition of fast and slow algorithms, this distinction was made on the basis of polynomial vs. faster-than-polynomial growth of the work done with the problem size, and therefore this problem must be easy. Right? Well, not really.

Reference to the distinction between fast and slow methods will show that we have to measure the amount of work done as a function of the number of bits of input to the problem. In this example, \( n \) is not the number of bits of input. For instance, if \( n = 59 \), we don’t need 59 bits to describe it, but only 6. In general, the number of binary digits in the bit string of an integer \( n \) is close to \( \log_2 n \).

So in the problem of this example, testing the primality of a given integer \( n \), the length of the input bit string \( B \) is about \( 10 \log_2 n \). Seen in this light, the calculation suddenly seems very long, a string consisting of mere log \( 0 \)’s and 1’s has caused our mighty computer to do about \( \sqrt{n} \) units of work.

If we express the amount of work done as a function of \( B \), we find that the complexity of this calculation is approximately \( 2^{B/2} \), and that grows much faster than any polynomial function of \( B \).

Therefore, note that we have just discussed for testing the primality of a given integer is slow. See Chapter 6 for further discussion of this problem. At the present time no one has found a fast way to test for primality, nor has anyone proved that there isn’t a fast way. Primality testing belongs to the (well-publicized) class of seemingly, but not provably, intractable problems.

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**0.2 Hard vs. easy problems**

So in some problems whose input bit string has \(B\) bits the algorithm might operate in time \(6B\), and on others its input need, say, \(120\log B\) time units, and for still other problem instances of length \(B\) bits the algorithm might need \(5B^2\) time units to get the job done.
Well then, what would the warranty card say? It would have to pick out the worst possibility, otherwise the guarantee wouldn’t be valid. It would assure a user that if the input problem instance can be described by \(B\) bits, then an answer will appear after at most \(5B^2\) time units. Hence a performance guarantee is equivalent to an estimation of the worst possible scenario: the longest possible calculation that might ensue if \(B\) bits are input to the program.
Worst-case bounds are the most common kind, but there are other kinds of bounds for running time. We might give an average case bound instead (see section 5.7). That wouldn’t guarantee performance no worse than so-and-so; it would state that if the performance is averaged over all possible input bit strings of \(B\) bits, then the average amount of computing time will be so-and-so (as a function of \(B\)).
Now let’s talk about the difference between easy and hard computational problems and between fast and slow algorithms.
A warranty that would not guarantee ‘fast’ performance would contain some function of \(B\) that grows faster than any polynomial. Like \(B^B\), for instance, or like \(2^{2^B}\), etc. It is the polynomial time vs. not necessarily polynomial time guarantee that makes the difference between the easy and the hard classes of problems, or between the fast and the slow algorithms.
It is highly desirable to work with algorithms such that we can give a performance guarantee for running time that is at most a polynomial \(P(B)\) of the number of bits of input.
An algorithm is slow if, whatever polynomial \( P \) we think of, there exist arbitrarily large values of \( B \), and input data strings of \( B \) bits, that cause the algorithm to do more than \( P(B) \) units of work.
A computational problem is trackable if there is a fast algorithm that will find all its instances of it.
A computational problem is intractable if it can be proved that there is no fast algorithm for it.

**Example 3.**
Here is a familiar computational problem and a method, or algorithm, for solving it. Let’s see if the method has a polynomial time guarantee or not.
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Context: The problem is this. Let \(n\) be a given integer. We want to find out if \(n\) is prime. The method that we choose is the following. For each integer \(m = 2, 3, \ldots, \sqrt{n}\)| we ask if \(m\) divides (evenly into) \(n\). If all of the answers are ‘No,’ then we declare \( n \) to be a prime number, else it is composite.
First, we look at the computational complexity of this algorithm. That means that we are going to find out how much work is involved in doing the test. For a given integer \( n \) the work that we have to do can be measured in units of divisions of a whole number by another whole number. In those units, we obviously will do about \(\sqrt{n}\) units of work.
It seems as though this is a tractable problem, because, after all, \(\sqrt{n}\) is of polynomial growth in \( n \). For instance, we do less than \( n \) units of work, and that’s certainly a polynomial in \( n \), isn’t it? So, according to our definition of fast and slow algorithms, the distinction was made on the basis of polynomial vs. faster-than-polynomial growth of the work done with the problem size, and therefore this problem must be easy. Right? Well, no not really.
References to the distinction between fast and slow methods will show that we have to measure the amount of work done as a function of the number of bits of input to the problem. In this example, \( n \) is not the number of bits of input. For instance, if \( n = 59 \), we don’t need 59 bits to describe it, but only 6. In general, the number of binary digits in the bit string of an integer \( n \) is close to \(\log_2 n\).
So in the problem of this example, testing the primality of a given integer \( n \), the length of the input bit string \( B \) is about \(\log_2n\). Seen in this light, the calculation suddenly seems very long. A string consisting of mere \(\log_2 n\) 0’s and 1’s has caused our mighty computer to do about \(\sqrt{n}\) units of work.
If we express the amount of work done as a function of \( B \), we find that the complexity of this calculation is approximately \(2^{B/2}\), and that grows much faster than any polynomial function of \( B \).
Therefore, the method that we have just discussed for testing the primality of a given integer is slow. See Chapter 4 for further discussions of this problem. At the present time no one has found a fast way to test for primality, nor has anyone proved that there isn’t a fast way. Primality testing belongs to the (well-populated) class of seemingly, but not provably, intractable problems.
In this book we will deal with some easy problems and some seemingly hard ones. It’s the ‘seemingly’ that makes things very interesting. These are problems for which no one has found a fast computer algorithm,

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Context: # Chapter 0: What This Book Is About

but also, no one has proved the impossibility of doing so. It should be added that the entire area is vigorously being researched because of the attractiveness and the importance of the many unanswered questions that remain.

Thus, even though we just don’t know many things that we’d like to know in this field, it isn’t for lack of trying!

## 0.3 Preview

Chapter 1 contains some of the mathematical background that will be needed for our study of algorithms. It is not intended that reading this book or using it as a text in a course must necessarily begin with Chapter 1. It’s probably a better idea to plunge into Chapter 2 directly, and then when particular skills or concepts are needed, to read the relevant portions of Chapter 1. Otherwise, the definitions and ideas that are in that chapter may seem to be unmotivated, when in fact motivation in great quantities resides in the later chapters of the book.

Chapter 2 deals with recursive algorithms and the analyses of their complexities.

Chapter 3 is about a problem that seems as though it might be hard, but turns out to be easy, namely the network flow problem. Thanks to quite recent research, there are fast algorithms for network flow problems, and they have many important applications.

In Chapter 4, we study algorithms in one of the oldest branches of mathematics, the theory of numbers. Remarkably, the connections between this ancient subject and the most modern research in computer methods are very strong.

In Chapter 5, we will see that there is a large family of problems, including a number of very important computational questions, that are bound together by a good deal of structural unity. We don’t know if they’re hard or easy. We do know that we haven’t found a fast way to do them yet, and most people suspect that they’re hard. We also know that if any one of these problems is hard, then they all are, and if any one of them is easy, then they all are.

We hope that, having found out something about what people know and what people don’t know, the reader will have enjoyed the trip through this subject and may be interested in helping to find out a little more.
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Context: The last symbol in the asymptotic set that we will need is the ‘Ω.’ In a nutshell, ‘Ω’ is the negation of ‘o.’ That is to say, f(x) ∈ Ω(g(x)) means that it is not true that f(x) = o(g(x)). In the study of algorithms for computers, the ‘Ω’ is used when we want to express the thought that a certain calculation takes at least so-and-so long to do. For instance, we can multiply together two n × n matrices in time O(n^2.81). Later on in this book we will see how to multiply two matrices even faster, in time O(n^2.81). People know of even faster ways to do that job, but one thing that can be sure of is this: nobody will ever be able to write a matrix multiplication program that will multiply pairs n × n matrices with fewer than n^2 computational steps, because whatever program we write will have to look at the input data, and there are n^2 entries in the input matrices.

Thus, a computing time of cn^2 is certainly a lower bound on the speed of any possible general matrix multiplication program. We might say, therefore, that the problem of multiplying two n x n matrices requires Ω(n^2) time.

The exact definition of the ‘Ω’ that was given above is actually rather detailed. We stated it as the negation of something. Can we rephrase it as a positive assertion? Yes, with a bit of work (see exercises 6 and 7 below). Since f = g(x) means that f = g - 0, the symbol f = Ω(g) means that f/g does not approach zero. If we assume that g takes positive values only, which is usually the case in practice, then to say that f/g does not approach 0 is to say that x > 0 and an infinite sequence of values of x, tending to ∞, along which |f|/g > c. So we don’t have to show that |f|/g > c for all large x, but only for infinitely many large x.
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**Definition.** We say that \( f(x) = \Omega(g(x)) \) if there is an \( \epsilon > 0 \) and a sequence \( x_1, x_2, \ldots \) such that \( \forall j: f(x_j) > \epsilon g(x_j) \).

Now let's introduce a hierarchy of functions according to their rates of growth when \( x \) is large. Among commonly occurring functions of \( x \) that grow without bound as \( x \to \infty \), perhaps the slowest growing ones are functions like \( \log x \) or maybe \( (\log x)^3 \) or things of that sort. It is certainly true that \( \log \log x \to \infty \), but it takes its time about it. When \( x = 1{,}000{,}000 \), for example, \( \log_2 x \) has the value 19.3.

Just a bit faster growing than the ‘snails’ above is \( x^{\frac{1}{10}} \). After all, for \( x = 1{,}000 \), we have \( 1{,}000^{\frac{1}{10}} \approx 2.5 \). If we had a computer algorithm that could do \( n \) things in time \( \log n \) and someone found another method that could do the same job in time \( O(\log \log n) \), then the second method, other things being equal, would indeed be an improvement, but it might have to be extremely large before you would notice the improvement.

Next on the scale of rapidity of growth we might mention the powers of \( x \). For instance, think about \( x^{0.1} \). It grows faster than \( \log x \), although you wouldn’t believe it if you tried to substitute a few values of \( x \) and to compare the answers (see exercise 1 at the end of this section).

**How could we prove that \( x^{0.1} \) grows faster than \( \log x \)?** By using L'Hôpital's rule.

**Example.** Consider the limit \( \lim_{x \to \infty} \frac{x^{0.1}}{\log x} \) as \( x \to \infty \). As \( x \to \infty \) assumes the indeterminate form \( \infty/\infty \), and it is therefore a candidate for L'Hôpital's rule, which tells us that if we want to find the limit then we can differentiate the numerator, differentiate the denominator, and try again to let \( x \to \infty \). If we do this, then instead of the original ratio, we find the ratio

\[
\frac{(-0.1)x^{-0.9}}{1/x} = -0.1x^{0.1}
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which obviously grows without bound as \( x \to \infty \). Therefore the original ratio \( \frac{x^{0.1}}{\log x} \) also grows without bound. What we have proved, precisely, is that \( x^{0.1} \) grows faster than \( \log x \).

To continue up the scale of rates of growth, we meet \( x^2, x^3, x^{15} \log^2 x \), etc., and then encounter functions that grow faster than every fixed power of \( x \) just as \( x^2 \) grows faster than every fixed power of \( x \).

Consider \( e^{x^2} \). Since this is the same as \( e^{x \cdot x} \), it will obviously grow faster than \( x^{1000} \), in fact it will be larger than \( x^{1000} \) as soon as \( x > 1000 \), i.e., as soon as \( x > e^{1000} \) (don’t hold your breath!).

Hence \( e^{x^2} \) is an example of a function that grows faster than every fixed power of \( x \). Another such example is \( e^{\sqrt{x}} \).

**Definition.** A function that grows faster than \( x^n \) for every constant \( n \), but grows slower than \( e^c \) for every constant \( c \) is said to be of moderately exponential growth if for every \( \epsilon > 0 \) we have \( f(x) = \Omega(x^n) \) and for every \( c > 0 \) we have \( f(x) = O(e^c) \).

Beyond the range of moderately exponential growth are the functions that grow exponentially fast. Typical of such functions are \( 10^{n} \), \( 2^{n^2} \), and so forth. Formally, we have the:

**Definition.** A function \( f \) is of exponential growth if there exists \( c > 1 \) such that \( f(x) = \Omega(c^x) \) and there exists \( d \) such that \( f(x) = O(d^x) \).

If we truncate up a function of exponential growth with smaller functions then we will not change the fact that it is of exponential growth. The series \( e^{x^2/(n^2 + 37)} \) remains of exponential growth, because \( e^{x^2} \) is by itself, and it resists the efforts of the smaller functions to change its mind.

Beyond the exponentially growing functions there are functions that grow as fast as you might please. Like \( n! \), for instance, which grows faster than \( c^n \) for every fixed constant \( c \) and like \( 2^{n!} \), which grows much faster than \( n! \). The growth ranges that are the most common to computer scientists are ‘between’ the very slowly, logarithmically growing functions and the functions that are of exponential growth. The reason is simple: if a computer algorithm requires more than an exponential amount of time to do its job, then it will probably not be used, or at any rate it will be used only in highly unusual circumstances. In this book, the algorithms that we will deal with fall in this range.

Now we have discussed the various symmetries and asymptotes that are used to compare the rates of growth of pairs of functions, and we have dismissed the pecking order of rapidity of growth, so that we have a small catalogue of functions that grow slowly, medium-fast, fast, and super-fast. Next, let’s look at the growth of sums that involve elementary functions, with a view toward discovering the rates at which the sums grow.

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We recognize the middle member above as \( \log n \), and therefore by exponentiation of (1.1.8) we have:

\[
\left( \frac{n}{e} \right)^n \leq n! \leq \frac{n^{n+1}}{e^n} \tag{1.1.9}
\]

This is rather a good estimate of the growth of \( n! \), since the right member is only about \( n \) times as large as the left member \( \frac{(n/e)^n}{\sqrt{n}} \), when \( n \) is large. 

By the use of slightly more precise machinery one can prove a better estimate of the size of \( n! \) that is called Stirling's formula, which is the statement that:

\[
n! \sim \left( \frac{n}{e} \right)^n \sqrt{2 \pi n} \tag{1.1.10}
\]

## Exercises for section 1.1

1. Calculate the values of \( x^{0.01} \) and of \( \log_2 x \) for \( x = 10, 1000, 1,000,000 \). Find a single value of \( x > 10 \) for which \( x^{0.01} \leq x \log x \), and prove that your answer is correct.

2. Some of the following statements are true and some are false. Which are which?
   - (a) \( x^2 - 3x + 1 \sim x^2 \)
   - (b) \( \left( \sqrt{1 + \frac{1}{x^2}} - 1 \right) = o(1) \)
   - (c) \( e^{x} \sim \Theta(1) \)
   - (d) \( 1 \sim o(1) \)
   - (e) \( x^{\log \log x} = \omega(\log^2 x) \)
   - (f) \( \log(x + 1) = \Omega(\log x) \)
   - (g) \( \sin x = o(1) \)
   - (h) \( \cos x = o(1) \)
   - (i) \( \int_1^d \frac{1}{\log x} dx = O(1) \)
   - (j) \( \sum_{k=1}^{n} \frac{1}{k^3} = o(1) \)
   - (k) \( \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} 1 = \infty \)

3. Each of the three sums below defines a function of \( x \). Beneath each sum there appears a list of five assertions about the rate of growth, as \( x \to \infty \), of the function that the sum defines. In each case state which of the five choices, if any, are true (note: more than one choice may be true).

   \( h_1(x) = \sum_{j \geq 1} \frac{1}{j^2 + 3/j^3 + 4/j^3} \)
   
   - (i) \( \sim \log x \)
   - (ii) \( = O(x) \)
   - (iii) \( \sim 2 \log x \)
   - (iv) \( = \Theta(\log^2 x) \)
   - (v) \( = \Omega(1) \)

   \( h_2(x) = \sum_{j \leq x} \frac{1}{j \log j} \)

   - (i) \( \sim \log x \)
   - (ii) \( = O(\sqrt{x}) \)
   - (iii) \( = \Theta(\sqrt{x} \log x) \)
   - (iv) \( \sim \Theta(\sqrt{x}) \)
   - (v) \( = o(\sqrt{x}) \)

   \( h_3(x) = \sum_{j \leq x} \frac{1}{\sqrt{j}} \)

   - (i) \( = O(\sqrt{x}) \)
   - (ii) \( = \Omega(x^{1/4}) \)
   - (iii) \( = o(x^{1/4}) \)
   - (iv) \( \sim x^{1/2} \)

4. Of the five symbols of asymptotics \( O, \omega, \Theta, \sim, \Omega \), which ones are transitive (e.g., if \( f = O(g) \) and \( g = O(h) \), then \( f = O(h) \))?

5. The point of this exercise is that if \( f \) grows more slowly than \( g \), then we can always find a third function \( h \) whose rate of growth is between that of \( f \) and \( g \). Precisely, prove the following: if \( f = o(g) \) then there exists \( h \) such that \( f = o(h) \) and \( h = o(g) \).

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is a function \( h \) such that \( h = o(h) \) and \( h = \Theta(g) \). Give an explicit construction for the function \( h \) in terms of \( g \).

6. (This exercise is a warmup for exercise 7.) Below there appear several mathematical propositions. In each case, write a proposition that is the negation of the given one. Furthermore, in the negation, do not use the word 'not' or any negation symbols. In each case the question is, “If this isn’t true, then what is true?”

   (a) \( \forall x > 0, f(x) \neq 0 \)  
   (b) \( \forall y > 0, f(y) > 0 \)  
   (c) \( \forall z \in \mathbb{R}, \, f(z) < f(x) \)  
   (d) \( \exists y > 3 \, \forall z < f(y) \)  
   (e) \( \forall x \exists z \, z < f(y) \)

Can you formulate a general method for negating such propositions? Given a proposition that contains \( \forall, \exists \), what rule would apply in order to negate the proposition and leave the result in positive form (containing no negation symbols or ‘not’s)?

7. In this exercise we will work out the definition of the \( \Omega \):

   (a) Write out the precise definition of the statement \( \lim_{n \to \infty} h(n) = 0 \) (use `\varepsilon`).  
   (b) Write out the negation of your answer to part (a) as a positive assertion.  
   (c) Use your answer to part (b) to give a positive definition of the assertion \( f(n) \neq o(g(n)) \), and thereby justify the definition of the \( \Omega \) symbol that was given in the text.

8. Arrange the following functions in increasing order of their rates of growth, for large \( n \). List them so that each one is ‘little o’ of its successor:

   \[
   2^{\sqrt{n}}, n^{3.01}, n^{2}, n^{1.6}, \log^{3} n + 1, \sqrt{n}, n \log n, n^{3} \log(\log n), n^{2}, (n + 4)^{12}
   \]

9. Find a function \( f(x) \) such that \( f(x) = O(2^{x}) \) is true for every \( \varepsilon > 0 \), but for which it is not true that \( f(x) = O(1) \).

10. Prove that the statement \( f(n) = O(2^{\varepsilon}) \) for every \( \varepsilon > 0 \) is equivalent to the statement \( f(n) = \Omega(2^{\varepsilon}) \) for every \( \varepsilon > 0 \).

## 1.2 Positional number systems

This section will provide a brief review of the representation of numbers in different bases. The usual decimal system represents numbers by using the digits \( 0, 1, \ldots, 9 \). For the purpose of representing whole numbers we can imagine that the powers of 10 are displayed below like this:

\[
\cdots, 100000, 10000, 1000, 100, 10, 1.
\]

Then, to represent an integer we can specify how many copies of each power of 10 we would like to have. If we write 237, for example, then that means that we want 2 copies of \( 10^2 \) and 3 copies of \( 10^1 \) and 7 copies of \( 10^0 \).

In general, if we write out the string of digits that represents a number in the decimal system, as \( d_m d_{m-1} \ldots d_1 d_0 \), then the number that is being represented by that string of digits is

\[
n = \sum_{i=0}^{m} d_i \cdot 10^i.
\]

Now let’s try the binary system. Instead of using \( 10 \)’s we’re going to use \( 2 \)’s. So we imagine that the powers of \( 2 \) are displayed below as:

\[
\cdots, 512, 256, 128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1.
\]

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  - **Exercise 6:** Deals with understanding the concepts of functions with respect to 'o(h)' and 'o(g)'.
  - **Exercise 7:** Focuses on the definition of the 'Ω' notation and its implications.
  - **Exercise 8:** Sorting functions based on their growth rates.
  - **Exercise 9:** Finding a function \( f(n) \) relative to growth orders.
  - **Section 1.2:** Discusses positional number systems and their representation.

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    \( 2^{\sqrt{\log n}}, e^{(\log n)^2}, n^{3\log \log n}, 2^n, n^2, n^{2^n}, \log^2 n + \sqrt{n}, n^{1.6}, \log^2 n + 1, \sqrt{n}, n^{\log \log n}, n^3 \log n, (\log \log n)^3, n^{1.52}, (\pi + 4)^{\log n}, n^3 log n, n (log \log n)^{3/2}, (\pi + 4)^2 \).  
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#### Textual Breakdown and Analysis:
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- **Growth Rates:** Exercise 8 asks to organize various functions by their growth rates, critical for algorithm analysis.
- **Positional Number Systems:** The section 1.2 provides an introduction to positional number systems, a fundamental concept in number theory and computer science.

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To represent a number we will now specify how many copies of each power of \(2\) we would like to have. For instance, if we write \(1101\), then we want an \(8\), a \(4\), and a \(1\), so this must be the decimal number \(13\). We will write

\[
(13)_{10} = (1101)_{2}
\]

to mean that the number \(13\) in the base \(10\) is the same as the number \(1101\) in the base \(2\).

In the binary system (base \(2\)) the only digits we will ever need are \(0\) and \(1\). What that means is that if we use only \(0\)’s and \(1\)’s then we can represent every number in exactly one way. The unique representation of every number is, after all, what we must expect and demand of any proposed system.

Let’s elaborate on this last point. If we were allowed to use more digits than just \(0\)’s and \(1\)’s then we would be able to represent the number \(13\) as a binary number in a whole lot of ways. For instance, we might make the mistake of allowing digits \(0, 1, 2\), \(3\), \(4\), etc. Then \(13\) would be representable as \(3 \cdot 2^{2} + 1 \cdot 2^{1} + 0 \cdot 2^{0}\) etc.

So if we were to allow too many different digits then numbers would be representable in more than one way as a string of digits.

If we were to allow too few different digits then we would find that some numbers have no representation at all. For instance, if we were to use the decimal system with only the digits \(0, 1, \ldots, 9\), then infinitely many numbers would not be able to be represented, so we had better keep the \(9\)s.

The general proposition is this.

### Theorem 1.2.1
Let \(b > 1\) be a positive integer (the 'base'). Then every positive integer \(n\) can be written in one and only one way in the form

\[
n = d_k b^k + d_{k-1} b^{k-1} + d_{k-2} b^{k-2} + \ldots
\]

if the digits \(d_0, d_1, \ldots\) lie in the range \(0 \leq d_i < b - 1\) for all \(i\).

**Remark:** The theorem says, for instance, that in the base \(10\) we need the digits \(0, 1, 2, \ldots, 9\); in the base \(2\) we need only \(0\) and \(1\), in the base \(16\) we need sixteen digits, etc.

**Proof of the theorem:** If \(b\) is fixed, the proof is by induction on \(n\), the number being represented. Clearly, the number \(1\) can be represented in one and only one way with the available digits (why?). Suppose, inductively, that every integer \(1, 2, \ldots, n - 1\) is uniquely representable. Now consider the integer \(n\). Define \(d = n \mod b\). Then \(d\) is one of the permissible digits. By induction, the number \(n' = (n - d) / b\) is uniquely representable, say

\[
n' = d_k b^k + d_{k-1} b^{k-1} + d_{k-2} b^{k-2} + \ldots
\]

Then clearly,

\[
n = d + n' b = d + d_k b^{k+1} + d_{k-1} b^{k} + d_{k-2} b^{k-1} + \ldots
\]

is a representation of \(n\) that uses only the allowed digits.

Finally, suppose that \(n\) has some other representation in this form also. Then we would have

\[
n = a_0 + a_1 b + a_2 b^{2} + \ldots = c_0 + c_1 b + c_2 b^{2} + \ldots
\]

Since \(a_0\) and \(c_0\) are both equal to \(n \mod b\), they are equal to each other. Hence the number \(n' = (n - a_0) / b\) has two different representations, which contradicts the inductive assumption, since we have assumed the truth of the result for all \(n < m\).

The bases \(b\) that are the most widely used are, aside from \(2\) (binary system), \(8\) (octal system) and \(16\) (hexadecimal system).

The binary system is extremely simple because it uses only two digits. This is very convenient if you’re a computer or a computer designer because the digits can be determined by some component being either ‘on’ (digit \(1\)) or ‘off’ (digit \(0\)). The binary digits of a number are called its bits or its bit string.

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The octal system is popular because it provides a way to remember and deal with the long bit strings that the binary system creates. According to the theorem, in the octal system the digits that we need are \(0, 1, \ldots, 7\). For instance,

\[
(735)_{10} = (477)_8.
\]

The captivating feature of the octal system is the ease with which we can convert between octal and binary. If we are given the bit string of an integer \(n\), to convert it to octal, all we have to do is group the bits together in groups of three, starting with the least significant bit, then convert each group of three bits independently of the others, into a single octal digit. Conversely, if the octal form is given, then the binary form is obtainable by converting each octal digit independently into the three bits that represent it in the binary system.

For example, given \( (110110011001)_2 \). To convert this binary number to octal, we group the bits in threes,

\[
(1)(101)(100)(101)
\]

starting from the right, and then we convert each triple into a single octal digit, thereby getting

\[
(110110011001)_2 = (1545)_8.
\]

If you're a working programmer, it’s very handy to use the shorter octal strings to remember, or to write down, the longer binary strings, because of the space saving, coupled with the ease of conversion back and forth.

The hexadecimal system (base 16) is like octal, only more so. The conversion back and forth to binary now uses groups of four bits, rather than three. In hexadecimal we will need, according to the theorem above, 16 digits. We have handy names for the first 10 of these, but what shall we call the 'digits 10 through 15'? The names that are conventionally used for them are 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F'. We have, for example,

\[
(A52C)_{16} = 10 \cdot 4096 + 5 \cdot 256 + 2 \cdot 16 + 12 = (42234)_{10}
\]
\[
= (1010)(0101)(0010)(1100)_2
\]
\[
= (101001010110010)_2
\]
\[
= (1)(010)(101)(100)(101)(100)
\]
\[
= (122345)_8.
\]

## Exercises for section 1.2

1. Prove that conversion from octal to binary is correctly done by converting each octal digit to a binary triple and concatenating the resulting triples. Generalize this theorem to other pairs of bases.

2. Carry out the conversions indicated below.
   - (a) \( (73)_{10} = (?) \)
   - (b) \( (100)_{8} = (?)_{16} \)
   - (c) \( (337)_{8} = (?)_{16} \)
   - (d) \( (ABCD)_{16} = (?)_{10} \)
   - (e) \( (BEEF)_{16} = (?)_{8} \)

3. Write a procedure convert(n, b: integer, digits: string), that will find the string of digits that represents \( n \) in the base \( b \).
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Context: ```
# 1.3 Manipulations with series

We are reminded of the finite geometric series (1.3.1), but (1.3.7) is a little different because of the multipliers \( 1, 2, 3, 4, \ldots, N \).

The trick is this. When confronted with a series that is similar to, but not identical with, a known series, write down the known series as an equation, with the series on one side and its sum on the other. Even though the unknown series involves a particular value of \( x \) in this case \( z = 2 \), keep the known series with its variable unrestricted. Then reach for an appropriate tool that will be applied to both sides of that equation, and whose result will be that the known series will have been changed into the one whose sum we need.

In this case, since (1.3.7) reminds us of (1.3.1), we'll begin by writing down (1.3.1) again,

\[
(1 - z)^{-n} = 1 + z + z^2 + \ldots + z^{n-1} \tag{1.3.8}
\]

Don’t replace \( z \) by \( 2 \) yet, just walk up to the equation (1.3.8) carrying your tool kit and ask what kind of surgery you could do to both sides of (1.3.8) that would be helpful in evaluating the unknown (1.3.7).

We are going to reach into our tool kit and pull out \( \frac{d}{dz} \). In other words, we are going to differentiate (1.3.8). The reason for choosing differentiation is that it will put the missing multipliers \( 1, 2, 3, \ldots, N \) into (1.3.8). After differentiation, (1.3.8) becomes

\[
1 + 2z + 3z^2 + 4z^3 + \ldots + (n - 1)z^{n-2} = \frac{1 - n z^{n-1} + (n - 1)z^n}{(1-z)^2} \tag{1.3.9}
\]

Now it's easy. To evaluate the sum (1.3.7), all we have to do is to substitute \( z = 2 \), \( n = N + 1 \) in (1.3.9), to obtain, after simplifying the right-hand side,

\[
1 + 2 + 2^2 + 3 \cdot 2^3 + \ldots + N 2^{N-1} = 1 + (N - 1)2^N \tag{1.3.10}
\]

Next try this one:

\[
\frac{1}{2^3} + \frac{1}{3^3} + \ldots \tag{1.3.11}
\]

If we rewrite the series using summation signs, it becomes

\[
\sum_{j=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{j^3}
\]

Comparison with the series \( 200 \) shows great resemblance to the species (1.3.6). In fact, if we put \( x = \frac{1}{3} \) in (1.3.6) it tells us that

\[
\sum_{j=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{j^3} = \frac{1}{3} \log(3/2) \tag{1.3.12}
\]

The desired sum (1.3.11) is the result of dropping the term with \( j = 1 \) from (1.3.12), which shows that the sum in (1.3.11) is equal to \( \log(3/2) - 1 \).

In general, suppose that \( f(z) = \sum a_n z^n \) is some series that we know. Then \( \sum n a_n z^{n-1} = f'(z) \) and \( \sum n^2 a_n z^{n-2} = z \frac{d}{dz} f'(z) \). In other words, if the \( n \)-th coefficient is multiplied by \( n^2 \), then the function changes from \( f(z) \) to \( z f''(z) \). If we apply the rule again, we find that multiplying the \( n \)-th coefficient of a power series by \( n^2 \) changes the sum from \( f(z) \) to \( \left( z \frac{d}{dz} \right)^2 f(z) \):

\[
\sum_{j=0}^{\infty} j^2 z^j / j! = \left( z \frac{d}{dz} \right)^2 e^z
\]
```

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## Image Analysis

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Context: The Fibonacci numbers are in fact 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, ... It isn't even obvious that the formula (1.4.15) gives integer values for the \( F_n \). The reader should check that the formula indeed gives the first few \( F_n \) correctly.

Just to exercise our newly acquired skills in asymptotics, let’s observe that since \( (1 + \sqrt{5})/2 > 1 \) and \( |(1 - \sqrt{5})/2| < 1 \), it follows that when \( n \) is large we have

\[
F_n \sim \left( \frac{(1 + \sqrt{5})}{2} \right)^{n+1}/\sqrt{5}.
\]

The process of looking for a solution in a certain form, namely in the form \( \alpha^n \), is subject to the same kind of special treatment, in the case of repeated roots, that we find in differential equations. Corresponding to a double root of the associated quadratic equation \( \alpha^2 - \alpha \omega - 1 = 0 \) would find two independent solutions \( \alpha^n \) and \( n \alpha^n \), so the general solution would be in the form \( \alpha^n(c_1 + c_2 n) \).

### Example
Consider the recurrence

\[
x_{n+1} = 2x_n - x_{n-1} \quad (n \geq 1; \quad x_0 = 5; \quad x_1 = 5).
\]
(1.4.16)

If we try a solution of the type \( x_n = \alpha^n \), then we find that it satisfies the quadratic equation \( \alpha^2 = 2\alpha - 1 \). Hence the two roots are \( 1 \) and \( 1 \). The general solution is \( x_n = c_1 \alpha^n + c_2 n \alpha^n \). After inserting the given initial conditions, we find that

\[
x_0 = 1 = c_1; \quad x_1 = 5 = c_1 + c_2.
\]

If we solve for \( c_1 \) and \( c_2 \) we obtain \( c_1 = 1, \quad c_2 = 4 \), and therefore the complete solution of the recurrence (1.4.16) is given by \( x_n = 4n + 1 \).

Now let’s look at recurrent inequalities, like this one:

\[
x_{n+1} \leq x_n + x_{n-1} + n^2 \quad (n \geq 1; \quad x_0 = 0; \quad x_1 = 0).
\]
(1.4.17)

The question is, what restriction is placed on the growth of the sequence \( \{ x_n \} \) by (1.4.17)?

By analogy with the case of difference equations with constant coefficients, the thing to try here is \( x_n \leq K n^r \). So suppose it is true that \( x_n \leq K n^r \) for all \( n = 0, 1, 2, ..., N \). Then from (1.4.17) with \( n = N \) we find

\[
x_{N+1} \leq K N^r + K N^{r-1} + N^2.
\]

Let \( c \) be the positive real root of the equation \( z^2 = c + 1 \) and suppose that \( \alpha > c \). Then \( \alpha^2 > \alpha + 1 \), say, where \( t > 0 \). Hence,

\[
x_{N+1} \leq K N^{r-1}(1 + \alpha) + N^2 = K N^{r-1}(\alpha - t) + N^2 = K^{N+1} \left( K^{r-1} - N^r \right).
\]
(1.4.18)

In order to ensure that \( x_{N+1} < K^{N+1}N^2 \), we need to fix \( K \).

\[
K > \max \left( \frac{N^2}{K^{r-1}} \right).
\]
(1.4.19)

In which the right member is clearly finite; the inductive step will go through. The conclusion is that (1.4.17) implies that for every fixed \( t > 0 \), \( x_n = O(n^{c+\epsilon}) \), where \( c = (1 + \sqrt{5})/2 \). The same argument applies to the general situation that is expressed in

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Context: # Chapter 1: Mathematical Preliminaries

## Theorem 1.4.1. 
Let a sequence \( \{x_n\} \) satisfy a recurrent inequality of the form 

\[
x_{n+1} \leq b_0 x_n + b_1 x_{n-1} + \ldots + b_{p-2} x_{n-p+1} + G(n) \quad (n \geq p)
\]

where \( b_i \geq 0 \) (\( \forall i, \sum_{i=0}^{p-1} b_i > 1 \)). Further, let \( c \) be the positive real root of the equation \( s^{p+1} = b_0 s^{p-1} + \ldots + b_{p-1} \). Finally, suppose \( G(n) = o(n^c) \). Then for every fixed \( \epsilon > 0 \) we have \( x_n = O(n^{c + \epsilon}) \).

**Proof:** Fix \( \epsilon > 0 \), and let \( \alpha = c + \epsilon \), where \( c \) is the root of the equation shown in the statement of the theorem. Since \( \alpha > c \), if we let 

\[
t = \alpha^{p+1} - b_0 \alpha^p - \ldots - b_{p-1}
\]

then 

\[
K = \max \left\{ \frac{|x_1|}{a_0}, \frac{|x_2|}{a_1}, \max_{n \geq 2} \frac{G(n)}{K(n)^{\alpha - s}} \right\}
\]

Then \( K \) is finite, and clearly \( |x_j| \leq K a^j \) for \( j \leq p \). We claim that \( |x_n| \leq K a^n \) for all \( n \), which will complete the proof.

Indeed, if the claim is true for \( 0, 1, 2, \ldots, n \), then 

\[
|x_{n+1}| \leq b_0 |x_n| + \ldots + b_{p-1} |x_{n-p+1}| + G(n)
\]

\[
\leq K a^n \left( b_0 K a^{n-1} + \ldots + b_{p-1} K a^{n-p} \right) + G(n)
\]

\[
= K a^n \left( K a^{p-1} \left( b_0 + \ldots + b_{p-1} \right) + G(n) \right)
\]

\[
= K a^{n+1} \left( t K^{\alpha - p} + G(n) \right) \leq K a^{n+1}
\]

## Exercises for Section 1.4

1. Solve the following recurrence relations:
   1. \( x_n = 2x_{n-3} + 3 \quad (n \geq 0; x_0 = 2) \)
   2. \( x_{n+1} = 2x_n/3 + 2 \quad (n \geq 0; x_0 = 0) \)
   3. \( x_{n+1} = 2x_n + 1 \quad (n \geq 0; x_0 = 0) \)
   4. \( x_{n+1} = x_{n-1} + x_n + 1 \quad (n \geq 1; x_1 = 5) \)
   5. \( x_{n+1} = x_n + x_{n-1} \quad (n \geq 1; x_0 = 0; x_1 = 3) \)
   6. \( x_{n+1} = 4x_n - 4x_{n-1} \quad (n \geq 1; x_0 = 1; x_1 = 1) \)

2. Find \( d \) if the sequence \( x_n \) satisfies the Fibonacci recurrence relation and if furthermore \( x_0 = 1 \) and \( x_1 = 1 \) (\( n \to \infty \)).

3. Let \( L_n \) be the average number of trailing 0's in the binary expansions of all integers \( 0, 1, 2, \ldots, n-1 \). Find a recursive relation satisfied by the sequence \( \{x_n\} \), solve it, and evaluate \( \lim_{n \to \infty} x_n \).

4. For what values of \( a \) and \( b \) is it true that no matter what the initial values \( x_0, x_1 \) are, the solution of the recurrence relation \( x_{n+1} = a x_n + b x_{n-1} \) (\( n \geq 2 \)) is guaranteed to be \( O(1) \) (as \( n \to \infty \))?

5. Suppose \( x_0 = 1, x_1 = 1 \), and for all \( n \geq 2 \) it is true that \( x_{n+1} \leq F_n \). Prove your answer.

6. Generalize the result of exercise 5, as follows. Suppose \( x_0 = x_1 = y \), where \( y = 1 \) or \( y \geq 1 \). If furthermore, \( x_{n+1} \leq x_{n-1} \) (\( n \geq 2 \)), can we conclude that \( \forall n : x_n \leq y \)? If not, describe conditions on \( a \) and \( b \) under which that conclusion would follow.

7. Find the asymptotic behavior in the form \( x_n \sim f(n) \) of the right side of (1.4.10).
  
* See exercise 10, below.

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    ```
    8. Write out a complete proof of theorem 1.4.1.
    9. Show by an example that the conclusion of theorem 1.4.1 may be false if the phrase ‘for every fixed ϵ0 > 0...’ were replaced by ‘for every fixed ϵ > 0 ...’.
    10. In theorem 1.4.1 we find the phrase: ‘…the positive real root of …’. Prove that this phrase is justified, in that the equation shown always has exactly one positive real root. Exactly what special properties of that equation did you use in your proof?
    
    1.5 Counting
    
    For a given positive integer n, consider the set {1,2,...,n}. We will denote this set by the symbol [n],
    and we want to discuss the number of subsets of various kinds that it has. Here is a list of all of the subsets
    of {2}, {1}, {2}, {1, 2}. There are 4 of them.
    
    We claim that the set [n] has exactly 2^n subsets.
    
    To see why, notice that we can construct the subsets of [n] in the following way. Either choose, or don’t
    choose, the element ‘1’; then either choose, or don’t choose, the element ‘2’; etc., finally choosing, or not
    choosing, the element ‘n’. Each of the n choices that you encountered could have been made in either 2 of
    ways. The totality of n choices, therefore, might have been made in 2^n different ways, so that is the number
    of subsets that a set of n objects has.
    
    Next, suppose we have n distinct objects, and we want to arrange them in a sequence. In how many
    ways can we do that? For the first object in our sequence we may choose any one of the n objects. The
    second element of the sequence can be any of the remaining n − 1 objects, so there are n(n − 1) possible
    ways to make these first two decisions. Then there are n − 2 choices for the third element, and so we have
    n(n − 1)(n − 2) ways to arrange the first three elements of the sequence. It is no doubt clear now that there
    are exactly n(n − 1)(n − 2)∙∙∙3∙2∙1 = n! ways to form the whole sequence.
    
    Of the n subsets of [n], how many have exactly k objects in them? The number of elements in a
    set is called its cardinality. The cardinality of a set S is denoted by |S|, so, for example, |{6}| = 6. A set
    whose cardinality is k is called a ‘k-set’, and a subset of cardinality k is, naturally enough, a ‘k-subset’. The
    question is, for how many subsets S of [n] is it true that |S| = k?
    
    We can construct k-subsets S of [n] (written S ⸦ [n] ∖) as follows. Choose an element a_1 (in possible
    choices). Of the remaining n − 1 elements, choose one (in n − 1 possible choices), etc., until a sequence of k
    different elements have been chosen. Obviously there were n(n − 1)(n − 2) ⸦⸦⸦ (n − k + 1) ways in which we
    might have chosen that sequence, so the number of ways to choose an (ordered) sequence of k elements from 
    [n] is
    
    n(n − 1)(n − 2) ∙∙∙ (n − k + 1) = n!/(n − k)!
    
    But there are more sequences of k elements than there are k-subsets, because any particular k-subset S
    will correspond to k! different ordered sequences, namely all possible rearrangements of the elements of that
    subset. Hence the number of k-subsets of [n] is equal to the number of k-sequences divided by k!. In other
    words, there are exactly n!/[k!(n − k)!] k-subsets of a set of n objects.
    
    The quantities n!/[k!(n − k)!] are the famous binomial coefficients, and they are denoted by
    
    ( ) = n!/[k!(n − k)!] (n ≥ 0; 0 ≤ k ≤ n).
    
    Some of their special values are
    
    (n) = 1 ( ∀n ≥ 0); (n) = n ( ∀n ≥ 0);
    (k) = n(n − 1)/2 ( ∀n ≥ 0); (n) = 1 ( ∀n ≥ 0). 
    ( 0 ) ( 1 ) ( 2 ) ( n )
    
    It is convenient to define (2) to be 0 if k < 0 or if k > n.
    We can summarize the developments so far with
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Context: # 1.5 Counting

The binomial theorem is the statement that ∀n ≥ 0 we have

(1 + x)² = ∑ₖ (n choose k) xᵏ. (1.5.4)

**Proof:** By induction on n. Eq. (1.5.4) is clearly true when n = 0, and if it is true for some n then multiply both sides of (1.5.4) by (1 + z) to obtain:

\[
(1 + x)² = ∑ₖ (n choose k) xᵏ + ∑ₖ (n choose k) xᵏ+¹
= ∑ₖ (n choose k) xᵏ + ∑ₖ (n choose (k - 1)) (n - k) xᵏ
= ∑ₖ (n choose k) xᵏ + ∑ₖ (n choose k) xᵏ
= ∑ₖ (n + 1 choose k) xᵏ
\]

which completes the proof.

Now let’s ask how big the binomial coefficients are, as an exercise in asymptotics. We will refer to the coefficients in row n of Pascal’s triangle, that is,

\[
\begin{pmatrix}
n \\
0
\end{pmatrix}, 
\begin{pmatrix}
n \\
1
\end{pmatrix}, 
\cdots, 
\begin{pmatrix}
n \\
n
\end{pmatrix}
\]

as the coefficients of order n. Then, by (1.5.2) (or by (1.5.4) with x = 1), the sum of all the coefficients of order n is 2ⁿ. It is also fairly apparent, from an inspection of Table 1.5.1, that the largest one(s) of the coefficients of order n is (are) the one(s) in the middle.

More precisely, if n is odd, then the largest coefficients of order n are (n-1)/2 and (n+1)/2, whereas if n is even, the largest one is uniquely \( \binom{n}{n/2} \).

It will be important, in some of the applications to algorithms later on in this book, for us to be able to pick out the largest term in a sequence of this kind, so let’s see how we could prove that the biggest coefficients are the ones cited above.

For n fixed, we will compute the ratio of the (k + 1)ᵗʰ coefficient of order n to the kᵗʰ. We will see that the ratio is larger than 1 if k < (n - 1)/2 and is < 1 if k > (n - 1)/2. That, of course, will imply that the (k + 1)ᵗʰ coefficient is bigger than the kᵗʰ, for such k, and therefore that the biggest one(s) must be in the middle.

The ratio is:

\[
\frac{\binom{n}{k + 1}}{\binom{n}{k}} = \frac{n!/(k + 1)!(n - k - 1)!}{k!/(k!(n - k)!)} = \frac{n!}{(k + 1)!(n - k - 1)!} \cdot \frac{(n - k)!}{k!}
\]

\[
= \frac{(k + 1)(n - k)}{(n - k - 1)!} = \frac{(n - k)}{(k + 1)} > 1 \text{ if } k < (n - 1)/2
\]

and is > 1 if k < (n - 1)/2, as claimed.

OK, the biggest coefficients are in the middle, but how big are they? Let’s suppose that n is even, just to keep things simple. Then the biggest binomial coefficient of order n is:

\[
\binom{n}{n/2} \sim \frac{n!}{(n/2)!(n/2)!} = \frac{n}{\sqrt{2 \pi n}} \cdot \left( \frac{(n/2)^{(n/2)}}{(n/2)^{(n/2)}} \right) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi n}}.
\]

(1.5.5)

Image Analysis: 

### Analysis of Visual Content

#### 1. Localization and Attribution:
- The image contains a single page from a book or document which discusses mathematical concepts.

#### 2. Object Detection and Classification:
- **Object:** Mathematical text and formulas
  - **Category:** Academic/Mathematical Content

#### 3. Scene and Activity Analysis:
- **Scene Description:** The image depicts a page full of mathematical notation and text related to the topic of the binomial theorem and binomial coefficients.
- **Activities:** The text is focused on explaining mathematical proofs and properties concerning binomial coefficients and asymptotics.

#### 4. Text Analysis:
- **Detected Text:**
  - "The binomial theorem is the statement that ∀n ≥ 0 we have \((1+x)^n = \sum_{k=0}^n \binom{n}{k} x^k\) (1.5.4)"
  - Mathematical proofs and explanations involving binomial coefficients.
  - Asymptotic properties and ratios of binomial coefficients.
  - Example calculations such as \(\binom{n}{k}\) and related complex formulas.
- **Analysis:**
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  - This serves an educational purpose likely aimed at students or professionals working with combinatorial mathematics or algorithm analysis.

#### 5. Diagram and Chart Analysis:
- There are no diagrams or charts explicitly visible in this image.

#### 8. Color Analysis:
- **Dominant Colors:** The page is in grayscale.
  - **Impact on Perception:** The grayscale color signifies a formal, academic tone typical for printed textbooks or academic papers.

#### 9. Perspective and Composition:
- **Perspective:** Overhead view of a single page from a book.
- **Composition:** The page is text-heavy with mathematical notations and a structured layout typical for academic documents.

#### 12. Graph and Trend Analysis:
- The text discusses trends and ratios in mathematical terms, particularly focusing on the growth and properties of binomial coefficients in different conditions.

#### 13. Tables:
- **Content:**
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  - The main content revolves around binomial coefficients and their properties based on different values of \(n\) and \(k\).

#### Additional Aspects:

- **Ablaufprozesse (Process Flows):**
  - A step-by-step mathematical proof is provided for the binomial theorem and related properties.
  
- **Prozessbeschreibungen (Process Descriptions):**
  - Detailed descriptions of mathematical processes related to solving or proving properties of binomial coefficients.

- **Typen Bezeichnung (Type Designations):**
  - The text identifies specific types of coefficients and their characteristics within the broader context of combinatorics and algebra.
  
- **Tables:** 
  - Visual tables are not explicitly presented, but there are implicit tables of values and properties discussed in the text (e.g., properties of middle binomial coefficients in Pascal's triangle).

Given the academic nature of the content, the page appears to be from a textbook or scholarly article in the field of mathematics, specifically discussing binomial theorems and associated proofs and properties.
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Context: #### Additional Aspects
- **Ablaufprozesse (Process Flows) & Prozessbeschreibungen (Process Descriptions):**
  - Processes involved include mathematical reasoning, steps for solving combinatorial problems, and interpreting graph properties.

- **Typen Bezeichnung (Type Designations):**
  - Different types of combinatorial terms and graph properties (e.g., binomial coefficients, vertices, edges, degrees).

### Conclusion
The visual content on the provided page delivers comprehensive educational material on mathematical preliminaries, specifically combinatorial mathematics and graph theory. The page effectively uses diagrams and structured text to convey advanced concepts and exercises aimed at students or readers engaged in higher mathematical studies.
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Context: # Chapter 1: Mathematical Preliminaries

It is not hard to prove that the following are equivalent descriptions of a tree.

1. A tree is a graph that is connected and has no cycles.
2. A tree is a graph \( G \) that is connected and for which \( |E(G)| = |V(G)| - 1 \).
3. A tree is a graph \( G \) with the property that between every pair of distinct vertices there is a unique path.

If \( G \) is a graph and \( S \subset V(G) \), then \( S \) is an independent set of vertices of \( G \) if no two of the vertices in \( S \) are adjacent in \( G \). An independent set \( S \) is maximal if it is not a proper subset of another independent set of vertices of \( G \). Dually, if a vertex subset \( S \) induces a complete graph, then we speak of a complete subgraph of \( G \). A maximal complete subgraph of \( G \) is called a clique.

A graph might be labeled or unlabeled. The vertices of a labeled graph are numbered \( 1, 2, \ldots, n \). One difference that this makes is that there are a lot more labeled graphs than there are unlabeled graphs. There are, for example, 3 labeled graphs that have 3 vertices and 1 edge. They are shown in Fig. 1.6.7.

![Fig. 1.6.7: Three labeled graphs...](#)

There is, however, only 1 unlabeled graph that has 3 vertices and 1 edge, as shown in Fig. 1.6.8.

![Fig. 1.6.8: ... but only one unlabeled graph](#)

Most counting problems on graphs are much easier for labeled than for unlabeled graphs. Consider the following question: how many graphs are there that have exactly \( n \) vertices? Suppose first that we mean labeled graphs. A graph of \( n \) vertices has a maximum of \( \binom{n}{2} \) edges. To construct a graph we would decide which of these possible edges would be used. We can make each of these \( \binom{n}{2} \) decisions independently, and for every way of deciding where to put the edges we would get a different graph. Therefore the number of labeled graphs of \( n \) vertices is \( 2^{\binom{n}{2}} \).

If we were to ask the corresponding question for unlabeled graphs we would find it to be very hard. The answer is known, but the derivation involves Burnside's lemma about the action of a group on a set, and some fairly delicate counting arguments. We will state the approximate answer to this question, which is easy to write out, rather than the exact answer, which is not. If \( g_n \) is the number of unlabeled graphs on \( n \) vertices then

\[ g_n \sim \frac{2^{n^2}}{n!}. \]

## Exercises for section 1.6

1. Show that a tree is a bipartite graph.
2. Find the chromatic number of the n-cycle.
3. Describe how you would find out, on a computer, if a given graph is bipartite.
4. Given a positive integer \( K \). Find two different graphs each of whose chromatic numbers is \( K \).
5. Exactly how many labeled graphs of \( n \) vertices and \( E \) edges are there?
6. How many labeled graphs of \( n \) vertices do vertices \( 1, 2, 3 \) form an independent set?
7. How many cliques does an n-cycle have?
8. True or false: A Hamilton circuit is an induced cycle in a graph.
9. Which graph of \( n \) vertices has the largest number of independent sets? How many does it have?
10. Draw all of the connected, unlabeled graphs of 4 vertices.
11. Let \( G \) be a bipartite graph that has \( k \) connected components. Show that there are exactly \( 2^k \) ways to properly color the vertices of \( G \) in 2 colors.
12. Find a graph \( G \) of \( n \) vertices, other than the complete graph, whose chromatic number is equal to 1 plus the maximum degree of any vertex of \( G \).

Image Analysis: 

### Localization and Attribution:
1. **Image 1:**
    - **Location:** Near the middle of the page.
    - **Description:** Three small labeled graphs, labeled as "Fig. 1.6.7".

2. **Image 2:**
    - **Location:** Just below Image 1, occupying less vertical space.
    - **Description:** One small unlabeled graph, labeled as "Fig. 1.6.8".

### Object Detection and Classification:
1. **Image 1:**
    - **Objects Detected:** Three graphs.
      - **Features:** 
        - Each graph has 3 vertices.
        - Each graph has 1 edge.
    - **Classification:** Graphs.

2. **Image 2:**
    - **Objects Detected:** One graph.
      - **Features:**
        - The graph has 3 vertices.
        - The graph has 1 edge.
    - **Classification:** Graph.

### Scene and Activity Analysis:
1. **Image 1:**
    - **Scene:** Display of three labeled graphs with vertices numbered 1, 2, 3 and each graph containing one edge.
    - **Activity:** The graphs are static representations, showing different ways to label 3 vertices and 1 edge.

2. **Image 2:**
    - **Scene:** Display of one unlabeled graph with 3 vertices and 1 edge.
    - **Activity:** A static representation illustrating a single configuration for an unlabeled graph with 3 vertices and 1 edge.

### Text Analysis:
1. **Text Content:**
    - **Detection:** Various definitions, descriptions, and exercises related to graph theory, particularly focused on labeled and unlabeled graphs, independent sets, and tree graphs.
    - **Analysis:**
        - **Introduction to Graph Theory Concepts:** 
          - Definitions around trees and graphs.
          - Concepts like labeled vs. unlabeled graphs, independent sets, and cliques are discussed and illustrated.
        - **Exercises:** 
          - A set of problems aimed at testing understanding of the concepts covered.
          - Example questions include finding chromatic numbers, identifying induced cycles, and analyzing independent sets.

### Diagram and Chart Analysis:
1. **Image 1:**
    - **Insight from Figure 1.6.7:**
      - Shows three different ways to label 3 vertices with 1 edge in a graph.

2. **Image 2:**
    - **Insight from Figure 1.6.8:**
      - Shows a single configuration for an unlabeled graph with 3 vertices and 1 edge, indicating there's only one such graph.

### Color Analysis:
- **General Observation:**
  - The images in the document are monochromatic (black and white), typical for technical textbooks.

### Perspective and Composition:
1. **Perspective:**
    - **Direct/Orthogonal View:**
      - Both images are presented from a straight-on perspective, typical of textbook illustrations.
2. **Composition:**
    - **Centered alignment within the text:**
      - The diagrams are centrally aligned and directly referenced in the surrounding text.

### Contextual Significance:
- **Overall Significance:**
  - The images serve an educational purpose, illustrating and reinforcing the textual explanations of graph theory concepts.
  - They aid in visual learning and help in differentiating between labeled and unlabeled graphs.

### Prozessbeschreibungen (Process Descriptions):
- **Graph Labeling and Classification:**
  - The process of graph labeling is demonstrated, showing different or identical configurations depending on whether labeling is considered.

### Exercises for Section 1.6:
- **Example Problems:**
  - Calculate vertices configurations for bipartite graphs.
  - Determine the chromatic number.
  - Identify independent sets and maximum cliques in graphs.

### Tables:
- No tables detected in the provided visual content.

### Typen Bezeichnung (Type Designations):
- **Graph Types:**
  - The images and accompanying text distinguish between labeled and unlabeled graphs.

### Trend and Interpretation:
- **Trend Identification:**
  - Understanding the increased complexity and variety in labeled graphs compared to unlabeled ones is apparent, highlighting a vital aspect of combinatorics in graph theory.

The analysis covers all detected elements and omits aspects that weren't relevant to this particular visual (like color analysis in a non-color document).
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Context: ```markdown
## 2.2 Quicksort

**Procedure:**

```plaintext
procedure calculate(list of variables);
    if (trivialcase) then do (triviallything);
    else do
        {call calculate(smaller values of the variables)};
        {maybe do a few more things}
end.
```

In this chapter, we’re going to work out a number of examples of recursive algorithms, of varying sophistication. We will see how the recursive structure helps us to analyze the running time, or complexity, of the algorithms. We will also find that there is a bit of art involved in choosing the list of variables that a recursive procedure operates on. Sometimes the first list we think of doesn’t work because the recursive call seems to need more detailed information than we have provided for it. So we try a larger list, and then perhaps it works, or maybe we need a still larger list ..., but more of this later.

### Exercises for Section 2.1

1. Write a recursive routine that will find the digits of a given integer n in the base b. There should be no visible loops in your program.

## 2.2 Quicksort

Suppose that we are given an array `x[1], ..., x[n]` of n numbers. We would like to rearrange these numbers as necessary so that they end up in nondecreasing order of size. This operation is called **sorting** the numbers.

For instance, if we are given `{9, 4, 7, 2, 1}`, then we want our program to output the sorted array `{1, 2, 4, 7, 9}`.

There are many methods of sorting, but we are going to concentrate on methods that rely on only two kinds of basic operations, called **comparisons** and **interchanges**. This means that our sorting routine is allowed to:

- (a) pick up two numbers (‘keys’) from the array, compare them, and decide which is larger.
- (b) interchange the positions of two selected keys.

Here is an example of a rather primitive sorting algorithm:
1. (i) find, by successive comparisons, the smallest key
2. (ii) interchange it with the first key
3. (iii) find the second smallest key
4. (iv) interchange it with the second key, etc.

Here is a more formal algorithm that does the job above:

```plaintext
procedure slowsort(X: array[1..n]);
{sorts a given array into nondecreasing order}
for i = 1 to n - 1 do
    for j = i + 1 to n do
        if X[i] > X[j] then swap(X[i], X[j])
end. slowsort
```

If you were wondering why we called this method ‘primitive’, ‘slowsort’, and other pejorative names, the reason will be clearer after we look at its complexity.

What is the cost of sorting n numbers by this method? We will look at two ways to measure that cost. First let’s choose our unit of cost to be one comparison of two numbers, and then we will choose a different unit of cost, namely one interchange of position (‘swap’) of two numbers.
```
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Context: After some tidying up, (2.2.7) becomes

F(n) = \(\left(1 + \frac{1}{n-1}\right)F(n-1) + \left(2 - \frac{2}{n}\right)\).

which is exactly in the form of the general first-order recurrence relation that we discussed in section 1.4. In section 1.4 we saw that to solve (2.2.8) the winning tactic is to change to a new variable, that is defined, in this case, by

F(n) = \(\frac{n + 1}{n - 1} - \frac{2}{n + 1}y_n\).

If we make the change of variable F(n) = \( (1 + y_n)\), in (2.2.8), then it takes the form

\(y_n = y_{n-1} + 2(n - 1)/n(a_n + 1) \quad (n \geq 1)\)

as an equation for the \(y_n\)s (\(y_0 = 0\)). The solution of (2.2.10) is obviously

\(y_n = 2 \sum_{j=1}^{n} \frac{j - 1}{j(y_j + 1)}\)  
\(\ = 2 \sum_{j=1}^{n} \frac{2}{j + 1} - \frac{1}{j}\)  
\(\ = 2 \sum_{j=1}^{n} \frac{1}{j} - 4n/(n + 1)\).

Hence from (2.2.9),

F(n) = \(2(n + 1)\sum_{j=1}^{n} \frac{1}{j} - 4n\)

is the average number of pairwise comparisons that we do if we Quicksort an array of length n. Evidently F(n) ∼ \(2n\log(n - \infty)\) see (1.1.7) with \(g(t) = 1/t\), and we have proved

**Theorem 2.2.2.** The average number of pairwise comparisons of array entries that Quicksort makes when it sorts arrays of n elements is exactly as shown in (2.2.11), and is ∼ \(2n\log(n - \infty)\).

Quicksort is, on average, a very quick sorting method, even though its worst case requires a quadratic amount of labor.

## Exercises for section 2.2

1. Write out an array of 10 numbers that contains no splitter. Write out an array of 10 numbers that contains 10 splitters.
   
2. Write a program that does the following. Given a positive integer n, choose 100 random permutations of \([1, 2, \ldots, n!]\) and count how many of the 100 had at least one splitter. Execute your program for \(n = 5, 6, \ldots, 12\) and tabulate the results.
   
3. Think of some method of sorting n numbers that isn't in the text. In the worst case, how many comparisons might your method do? How many swaps? 

* For a fast and easy way to do this see A. Nijhuis and H. S. Wilf, *Combinatorial Algorithms*, 2nd ed. (New York: Academic Press, 1978), chap. 6.

Image Analysis: 

### Comprehensive Examination of the Attached Visual Content

#### Localization and Attribution
1. **Image 1**
   - **Location**: The entire content appears to be on a single page, containing textual and mathematical content.
   - **Page Number**: 37 is visible at the bottom-center of the page.

#### Object Detection and Classification
1. **Image 1**
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     - Text 
     - Mathematical equations
     - Numbered list (exercises)

#### Text Analysis
1. **Image 1**
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     - Sections from a book discussing "Quicksort" and related mathematical formulas.
     - Exercises for section 2.2 providing tasks involving arrays and algorithms.
   - **Content Analysis**:
     - **Mathematical Content**: The page elaborates on the recurrence relation and the average number of pairwise comparisons made by the Quicksort algorithm. It includes equations (2.2.8) to (2.2.11) that help in deriving the average number of comparisons.
     - **Theorem Statement**: Theorem 2.2.2 proves the average number of comparisons for Quicksort, specifying that it's based on equation (2.2.11) and asymptotically forms \(2n \ln(n) - 4n\).
     - **Exercises**: Three exercises aimed at understanding and applying the concepts of array sorting provided in section 2.2. These exercises involve creating arrays, running sorting algorithms, and counting the operations performed.

#### Diagram and Chart Analysis
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#### Color Analysis
- The image is primarily black and white, suitable for the academic or technical nature of the document.

#### Perspective and Composition
- **Perspective**: The image is a direct frontal view of a page from a book.
- **Composition**: Text is arranged in paragraphs, mathematical equations, and a numbered list for exercises. The layout is structured to facilitate easy reading and reference.

#### Contextual Significance
- **Overall Document Context**: The image seems to come from a textbook on algorithms, specifically detailing aspects of the Quicksort algorithm.
- **Contribution to Theme**: The detailed explanation of the Quicksort algorithm, including theoretical aspects and practical exercises, contributes to a deeper understanding of data sorting methods.

#### Tables
- No tables are present in the provided image.

### Summary
The image is a textbook page focused on the Quicksort algorithm, presenting theoretical explanations, mathematical derivations, and practical exercises. The text is dense with technical content, suitable for a computer science or mathematics educational course.
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Context: ### Conclusion:
The visual content includes detailed diagrams and descriptive text related to graph theory, specifically planar graphs. The figures provide visual explanations, while the text offers theoretical context and practical insights into graph planarity and recursive algorithms.
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Context: # 2.3 Recursive Graph Algorithms

In this section, we show in Fig. 2.3.5(a) a map of a distant planet, and in Fig. 2.3.5(b) the graph that results from the construction that we have just described.

By a **planar graph** we mean a graph \( G \) that can be drawn in the plane in such a way that two edges never cross (except that two edges at the same vertex have that vertex in common). The graph that results from changing a map of countries into a graph as described above is always a planar graph. In Fig. 2.3.6(a) we show a planar graph \( G \). This graph doesn't look planar because two of its edges cross. However, that isn’t the graph’s fault, because with a little more care we might have drawn the same graph as in Fig. 2.3.6(b), in which its planarity is obvious. Don’t blame the graph if it doesn’t look planar. It might be planar anyway!

The question of recognizing whether a given graph is planar is itself a formidable problem, although the solution, due to J. Hopcroft and R. E. Tarjan,* is an algorithm that makes the decision in linear time, i.e., in \( O(V) \) time for a graph of \( V \) vertices.

Although every planar graph can be properly colored in four colors, there are still all of those other graphs that are not planar to deal with. For any of those graphs we can ask if a positive integer \( K \) is given, whether or not its vertices can be \( K \)-colored properly.

As if that question weren’t hard enough, we might ask for even more detail, namely about the number of ways of properly coloring the vertices of a graph. For instance, if we have \( K \) colors to work with, suppose \( G \) is the empty graph \( R_n^K \). That is, the graph of \( n \) vertices that has no edges at all. Then \( G \) has quite a large number of proper colorings, \( K^n \), to be exact. Other graphs of \( n \) vertices have fewer proper colorings than that, and an interesting computational question is to count the proper colorings of a given graph.

We will now find a recursive algorithm that will answer this question. Again, the complexity of the algorithm will be exponential, but as a small consolation we note that no polynomial time algorithm for this problem is known.

Choose an edge \( e \) of the graph, and let its endpoints be \( u \) and \( v \). Now delete the edge from the graph, and let the resulting graph be called \( G - \{ e \} \). Then we will distinguish two kinds of proper colorings of \( G - \{ e \} \: \): those in which vertices \( u \) and \( v \) have the same color and those in which \( u \) and \( v \) have different colors. Obviously the number of proper colorings of \( G - \{ e \} \) if \( u \) and \( v \) are colored the same is the sum of the numbers of colorings of each of these two kinds.

* Efficient planarity testing, J. Assoc. Comp. Mach. 21 (1974), 549-568.  
  
43

Image Analysis: 

### Comprehensive Examination of the Visual Content

#### 1. Localization and Attribution
- **Image 1**: Located at the top left (labeled as Fig. 2.3.5(a)).
- **Image 2**: Located at the top right (labeled as Fig. 2.3.5(b)).
- **Image 3**: Located at the bottom left (labeled as Fig. 2.3.6(a)).
- **Image 4**: Located at the bottom right (labeled as Fig. 2.3.6(b)).

#### 2. Object Detection and Classification
- **Image 1**:
  - Objects: Nodes (labeled A-F), Edges connecting nodes.
  - Features: Circular shape with labeled sections.
  - Category: Graph/Diagram.
- **Image 2**:
  - Objects: Nodes (labeled A-F), Edges connecting nodes.
  - Features: Pentagon and liner connections indicating a planar graph.
  - Category: Graph/Diagram.
- **Image 3**:
  - Objects: Nodes (labeled 1-6), Edges connecting nodes.
  - Features: Hexagonal layout with all nodes interconnected.
  - Category: Graph/Diagram.
- **Image 4**:
  - Objects: Nodes (labeled 1-6), Edges connecting nodes.
  - Features: Similar structure to Image 3 but arranged differently.
  - Category: Graph/Diagram.

#### 3. Scene and Activity Analysis
- **Image 1**:
  - Scene: Schematic map indicating regions A-F.
  - Activity: Representation of spatial relationships in a graph form.
- **Image 2**:
  - Scene: Planar graph corresponding to the map.
  - Activity: Visualization of non-intersecting edges in a graph.
- **Image 3 and Image 4**:
  - Scene: Graph representations analyzing planar properties.
  - Activity: Illustrations of node connections and planar graph structures.

#### 4. Text Analysis
- **Text Detected**:
  - Fig. 2.3.5(a) - 2.3.6(b): Figure labels providing references.
  - Additional text describing graphs and their properties:
    - "A map of a distant planet..."
    - "Efficient planarity testing"
  - **Significance**: These descriptions explain the graphs and their context, providing insight into the construction and properties of planar graphs.

#### 5. Diagram and Chart Analysis
- **Diagrams** (Fig. 2.3.5(a) - 2.3.6(b)):
  - Purpose: Illustrate planar graphs and show the transformation from maps to graph representations.
  - Key Insights: Demonstrate graph properties and planar conditions without intersecting edges.

#### 8. Color Analysis
- **General Observation**: All images are primarily black and white, focusing on nodes and edges for clarity.

#### 9. Perspective and Composition
- **Perspective**: All images are top-down schematic views for clarity and ease of understanding of graph properties.
- **Composition**:
  - Nodes and edges are arranged to show relationships.
  - Clear labeling to identify nodes and connections.

#### 12. Graphs and Trend Analysis
- **Graphs**:
  - Detailed comparisons showing how altering edges affect planar properties.

#### 13. Graph Numbers:
- **Fig. 2.3.6(a) and 2.3.6(b)**: Nodes labeled from 1 to 6, showing different interconnections.

### Contextual Summary
The images and corresponding text form part of a discussion on recursive graph algorithms, focusing on planar graphs. By illustrating the planar maps and their graph representations, the figures aid in visualizing complex graph properties and transformations. This contributes significantly to understanding the underlying concepts explored in this section of the document. The planar graphs and explanations tie back to theoretical computer science and efficient planarity testing, highlighting significant research and problem-solving strategies in the field.
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Context: # 2.3 Recursive Graph Algorithms

If we solve for \( P(K; G) \), then we have

\[ P(K; G) = P(K; G - \{e\}) - P(K; G / \{e\}) \quad (2.3.4) \]

The quantity \( P(K; G) \), the number of ways of properly coloring the vertices of a graph \( G \) in \( K \) colors, is called the chromatic polynomial of \( G \).

We claim that it is, in fact, a polynomial in \( K \) of degree \( |V(G)| \). For instance, if \( G \) is the complete graph on \( n \) vertices then obviously \( P(K; G) = K(K - 1) \cdots (K - n + 1) \), and that is indeed a polynomial in \( K \) of degree \( n \).

**Proof of Claim:** The claim is certainly true if \( G \) has just one vertex. Next suppose the assertion is true for graphs of \( < n \) vertices, then we claim it is true for graphs of \( V \) vertices also. This is surely true if \( G \) has \( V \) vertices and no edges at all. Hence, suppose it is true for all graphs of \( V \) vertices and fewer than \( E \) edges. Then (2.3.4) implies that \( P(K; G) \) is a polynomial of the required degree \( b \) because \( G - \{e\} \) has fewer edges than \( G \) does, so its chromatic polynomial is a polynomial of degree \( V \). \( G / \{e\} \) has fewer vertices than \( G \) has, and so \( P(K; G / \{e\}) \) is a polynomial of lower degree. The claim is proved, by induction.

Equation (2.3.4) gives a recursive algorithm for computing the chromatic polynomial of a graph \( G \), since the two graphs that appear on the right are both "smaller" than \( G \), one in the sense that it has fewer edges than \( G \) has, and the other in that it has fewer vertices. The algorithm is the following.

```plaintext
function chromopoly(G: graph): polynomial;
    {computes the chromatic polynomial of a graph G}
    if G has no edges then
        chromopoly := K^{|V(G)|}
    else
        choose an edge e of G;
        chromopoly := chromopoly(G - {e}) - chromopoly(G / {e});
    end chromopoly;
```

Next we are going to look at the complexity of the algorithm chromopoly (we will also refer to it as the delete-and-identify algorithm). The graph \( G \) can be input in any one of a number of ways. For example, we might input the list of edges of \( G \), as a list of pairs of vertices.

The first step of the computation is to choose the edge \( e \) and to create the edge list of the graph \( G - \{e\} \). The latter operation is trivial, since all we have to do is to ignore one edge in the list.

Next we call chromopoly on the graph \( G - \{e\} \).

The third step is to create the edge list of the collapsed graph \( G / \{e\} \) from the edge list of \( G \) itself. That involves some work, but it is rather routine, and its cost is linear in the number of edges of \( G \), say \( |E(G)| \).

Finally we call chromopoly on the graph \( G / \{e\} \).

Let \( F(V, E) \) denote the maximum cost of calling chromopoly on any graph of at most \( V \) vertices and at most \( E \) edges. Then we see at once that

\[ F(V, E) \leq F(V, E - 1) + cE + F(V - 1, E - 1) \quad (2.3.5) \]

together with \( F(V, 0) = 0 \). If we put, successively, \( E = 1, 2, 3 \), we find that \( F(V, 1) < c, F(V, 2) \leq 2c, \) and \( F(V, 3) \leq 3c \). Hence we seek a solution of (2.3.5) in the form \( F(V, E) \leq f(E) \), and we quickly find that if

\[ f(E) = 2f(E - 1) + E \quad (2.3.6) \]

then we will have such a solution.

Since (2.3.6) is a first-order difference equation of the form (1.4.5), we find that 

\[ f(E) \sim 2^E \sum_{j=0}^{E} j^2 \sim \frac{2^E}{(E+1)^3} \quad (2.3.7) \]

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  change of variable g(n) = 7 ^n y(n) (n ≥ 0) and we find that y0 = 0 and for n ≥ 1,

  y_n - 7y_n–1 + 2 ^(4/n^ n )= 9.

  If we sum over n we obtain
  
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Context: # Chapter 2: Recursive Algorithms

Finally, \( g(n) = 7^{n} \leq (10.5)^{n} = O(n^{m}) \), and this is \( O(N^{2.81}) \) as before. This completes the proof of 

## Theorem 2.4.1
In Strassen's method of fast matrix multiplication the number of multiplications of numbers, of additions of numbers and of subtractions of numbers that are needed to multiply together two \( N \times N \) matrices are each \( O(N^{2.81}) \) (in contrast to the \( O(N^{3}) \) of the conventional method).

In the years that have elapsed since Strassen's original paper many researchers have been whittling away at the exponent of \( N \) in the complexity bounds. Several new, and more elaborate algorithms have been developed, and the exponent, which was originally \( 3 \), has progressed downward through \( 2.81 \) to values below \( 2.5 \). It is widely believed that the true minimum exponent is \( 2 \), i.e., that two \( N \times N \) matrices can be multiplied in time \( O(N^{2}) \), but there seems to be a good deal of work to be done before that result can be achieved.

## Exercises for section 2.4
1. Suppose we could multiply together two \( 3 \times 3 \) matrices with only \( 22 \) multiplications of numbers. How fast, recursively, would we then be able to multiply two \( N \times N \) matrices?  
2. (cont.) With what would the ‘22’ in problem 1 above have to be replaced in order to achieve an improvement over Strassen's algorithm given in the text?  
3. (cont.) Still more generally, with how few multiplications would we have to be able to multiply two \( M \times N \) matrices in order to ensure that recursively we would then be able to multiply two \( N \times N \) matrices faster than the method given in this section?  
4. We showed in the text that if \( N \) is a power of \( 2 \) then two \( N \times N \) matrices can be multiplied in at most time \( C N^{2} \), where \( C \) is a suitable constant. Prove that if \( N \) is not a power of \( 2 \) then two \( N \times N \) matrices can be multiplied in time at most \( T(N) \).

## 2.5 The Discrete Fourier Transform
It is a lot easier to multiply two numbers than to multiply two polynomials.

If you should want to multiply two polynomials \( f \) and \( g \) of degrees \( 77 \) and \( 94 \), respectively, you are in for a lot of work. To calculate just one coefficient of the product is already a lot of work. Think about the calculation of the coefficient of \( x^{60} \) in the product, for instance, and you will see that \( 50 \) numbers must be multiplied together and added in order to calculate just that one coefficient of \( fg \), and there are \( 171 \) other coefficients to calculate!

Instead of calculating the coefficients of the product \( fg \), it would be much easier just to calculate the values of the product at, say, \( 172 \) points. To do that we could just multiply the values of \( f \) and \( g \) at each of those points, and after a total cost of \( 172 \) multiplications we would have the values of the product.

The values of the product polynomial at \( 172 \) distinct points determine that polynomial completely, so that sequence of values is the answer. It’s just that we humans prefer to see polynomials given by means of their coefficients instead of by their values.

The Fourier transform, that is the subject of this section, is a method of converting from one representation of a polynomial to another. More exactly, it converts from the sequence of coefficients of the polynomial to the sequence of values of that polynomial at a certain set of points. Ease of converting between these two representations of a polynomial is vitally important for many reasons, including multiplication of polynomials, high precision integer arithmetic in computers, creation of medical images in CAT scanners, etc.

Hence, in this section we will study the discrete Fourier transform of a finite sequence of numbers, methods of calculating it, and some applications.

This is a computational problem which at first glance seems very simple. What we’re asked to do, basically, is to evaluate a polynomial of degree \( n - 1 \) at \( n \) different points. So what could be so difficult about that?

If we just calculate the \( n \) values by brute force, we certainly wouldn’t need to do more than \( O(n^{2}) \) multiplications altogether.

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and so forth.  
To find the solution in a pleasant form, let

$$ n = p_1^{\alpha_1} p_2^{\alpha_2} \cdots p_s^{\alpha_s} \tag{2.5.19} $$

be the canonical factorization of \( n \) into primes. We claim that the function

$$ h(n) = \min_{b_1 \in (p_1 - 1) + d \alpha_2 - 1} + \cdots + d \alpha_p - 1 \tag{2.5.20} $$

is the solution of (2.5.18) (this claim is obviously correct if \( n \) is prime). To prove the claim in general, suppose it to be true for \( 1, 2, \ldots, n - 1 \), and suppose that \( n \) is not prime. Then every divisor of \( n \) must be of the form \( d = p_1^{\alpha_1} p_2^{\alpha_2} \cdots p_s^{\alpha_s} \), where the primes \( p_i \) are the same as those that appear in (2.5.19) and each \( b_i \leq \alpha_i \). Hence from (2.5.18) we get

$$ h(n) = \min_{(a_1 - b_1)(p_1 - 1) + \cdots + (a_s - b_s)(p_s - 1) + p_1^{\alpha_1} p_2^{\alpha_2} \cdots p_s^{\alpha_s} - 1} \tag{2.5.21} $$

where how the ‘min’ extends over all admissible choices of the \( b_i \)'s, namely exponents \( b_1, \ldots, b_s \), such that \( 0 \leq b_i \leq \alpha_i \) (for \( i = 1, s \)) and not all \( b_i \) are 0.  

One such admissible choice would be to take, say, \( b_1 = 1 \) and all other \( b_i = 0 \). If we let \( H(b_1, \ldots, b_s) \) denote the quantity in braces in (2.5.21), then with this choice the value of \( H \) would be \( (p_1 - 1) + \cdots + (a_s - 1) \), exactly what we need to prove our claim (2.5.20). Hence what we have to show is that the above choice of the \( b_i \)'s is the best one. We will show that if one of the \( b_i \) is larger than 1 then we can reduce it without increasing the value of \( H \). To prove this, observe that for each \( i = 1, s \), we have

$$ H(b_1, \ldots, b_i + 1, \ldots, b_s) - H(b_1, \ldots, b_s) = p_i + d(l_i - 1) = (d - 1)(p_i - 1). $$

Since the divisor \( d > 2 \) and the prime \( p \geq 2 \), the last difference is nonnegative. Hence if \( H \) doesn't increase if we decrease one of the \( b_i \) by 1 unit, as long as not all \( b_i = 0 \). It follows that the minimum of \( H \) occurs among the prime divisors of \( n \). Further, if \( i \) is prime, then we can easily check from (2.5.21) that it doesn't matter which prime divisor of \( n \) that we choose to be \( d \), the function \( h(n) \) is always given by (2.5.20). If we recall the change of variable \( g(n) = n(h) \) we find that we have proved

## Theorem 2.5.2  
**Complexity of the Fast Fourier Transform**  
The best choice of the factorization is \( n = r_{1}r_{2} \) in algorithm FFT to take \( n \) to be a prime divisor of \( n \). If that is done, then algorithm FFT requires

$$ g(n) = h(a_1(p_1 - 1) + a_2(p_2 - 1) + \cdots + a_s(p_s - 1)) $$

complex multiplications in order to do its job, where \( n = p_1^{\alpha_1} p_2^{\alpha_2} \cdots p_s^{\alpha_s} \) is the canonical factorization of the integer \( n \).  

Table 2.5.1 shows the number \( g(n) \) of complex multiplications required by FFT as a function of \( n \). The saving over the straightforward algorithm that uses \( n(n - 1) \) multiplications for each \( a \) is apparent. If \( n \) is a power of 2, say \( n = 2^r \), then the formula of theorem 2.5.2 reduces to \( g(n) = n/\log_2 n \), in agreement with theorem 2.5.1. What does the formula say if \( n \) is a product of distinct primes?

### 2.6 Applications of the FFT  
Finally, we will discuss some applications of the FFT. A family of such applications begins with the observation that the FFT provides the fastest game in town for multiplying two polynomials together. Consider a multiplication like

$$ (1 + 2x + 7x^2 - 2x^3 - x^4)(-4 - 5x - x^2 + 11x^3 + x^4) $$

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## 2.7 A review

An outgrowth of the rapidity with which we can now multiply polynomials is a rethinking of the methods by which we do ultrahigh-precision arithmetic. How fast can we multiply two integers, each of which has ten million bits? By using ideas that developed directly (though not at all trivially) from the ones that we have been discussing, Schönhage and Strassen found the fastest known method for doing such large-scale multiplications of integers. The method relies heavily on the FFT, which may not be too surprising since an integer \( n \) is given in terms of its bits \( b_0, b_1, \ldots, b_m \) by the relation

\[
n = \sum_{i=0}^{m} b_i 2^i.
\]

However, the sum in (2.5) is seen at once to be the value of a certain polynomial at \( z = 2 \). Hence in asking for the bits of the product of two such integers we are asking for something very similar to the coefficients of the product of two polynomials, and indeed the fastest known algorithms for this problem depend upon the Fast Fourier Transform.

### Exercises for section 2.6

1. Let \( \omega \) be an \( n \)-th root of unity, and let \( k \) be a fixed integer. Evaluate

\[
1 + \omega^k + \omega^{2k} + \cdots + \omega^{(n-1)k}.
\]

2. Verify that the relations (2.6.3) and (2.6.4) indeed are inverses of each other.

3. Let \( f = \sum_{j=0}^{n-1} a_j \omega^j \). Show that

\[
\frac{1}{n} \sum_{n=1}^{\omega} |f(\omega)|^2 = |a_0|^2 + \cdots + |a_{n-1}|^2.
\]

4. The values of a certain cubic polynomial at \( i, -1, -i \) are \( 1, 2, 3, 4 \), respectively. Find its value at 2.

5. Write a program that will do the FFT in the case where the number of data points is a power of 2. Organize your program so as to minimize additional array storage beyond the input and output arrays.

6. Prove that a polynomial of degree \( n \) is uniquely determined by its values at \( n + 1 \) distinct points.

## 2.7 A review

Here is a quick review of the algorithms that we studied in this chapter. Sorting is an easy computational problem. The most obvious way to sort an array elements takes time \( \Theta(n^2) \). We discussed a recursive algorithm that sorts in an average time of \( \Theta(n \log n) \).

Finding a maximum independent set in a graph is a hard computational problem. The most obvious way to do it might take time \( \Omega(2^{|V|}) \) if the graph \( G \) has \( V \) vertices. We discussed a recursive method that runs in time \( O(1.39^n) \). The best known methods run in time \( O(2^{|V|/3}) \).

Finding out if a graph is \( k \)-colorable is a hard computational problem. The most obvious way to do it takes time \( O(k^n) \), if \( G \) has \( n \) vertices. We also discussed methods that run in time \( O(1.5^n) \) if \( G \) has \( m \) edges. One recently developed method *runs in time* \( O(1.5^n) \). We will see in section 5.7 that this problem can be done in an average time that is \( O(1) \) for fixed \( k \).

Multiplying two matrices is an easy computational problem. The most obvious way to do it takes time \( O(n^3) \) if the matrices are \( n \times n \). We discussed a recursive method that runs in time \( O(n^{2.81}) \). A recent method **runs in time \( O(n^{2.5}) \)** for some \( \epsilon < 2.5 \).

- E. Lawler, A note on the complexity of the chromatic number problem, Information Processing Letters 5 (1976), 66-7.
- D. Coppersmith and S. Winograd, On the asymptotic complexity of matrix multiplication, SIAM J. Comp. 11 (1980), 472-492.
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  2.7 A review

  An outgrowth of the rapidity with which we can now multiply polynomials is a rethinking of the methods by which we do ultrahigh-precision arithmetic. How fast can we multiply two integers, each of which has ten million bits? By using ideas that developed directly (though not at all trivially) from the ones that we have been discussing, Schönhage and Strassen found the fastest known method for doing such large-scale multiplications of integers. The method relies heavily on the FFT, which may not be too surprising since an integer n is given in terms of its bits by the relation
  n = ∑_(i=0)^k b_i 2^i. (2.6.5)
  However, the sum in (2.6.5) is seen at once to be the value of a certain polynomial at x = 2. Hence in asking for the bits of the product of two such integers we are asking for something very similar to the coefficients of the product of two polynomials, and indeed the fastest known algorithms for this problem depend upon the Fast Fourier Transform.

  Exercises for section 2.6

  1. Let ω be an nth root of unity, and let k be a fixed integer. Evaluate
  1 + ω^k + ω^(2k) +···+ ω^[(n−1)k] .
  2. Verify that the relations (2.6.3) and (2.6.4) indeed are inverses of each other.
  3. Let f = ∑(n−1)_(j=0) a_jω^j. Show that
     1/n ∑(n)_(ω=1) |f(ω^1)|^2 = |a_0|^2 + ···+ |a_(n−1)|^2
  4. The values of a certain cubic polynomial at 1, i, -1, -i are 1, 2, 3, 4, respectively. Find its value at ω.
  5. Write a program that will do the FFT in the case where the number of data points is a power of 2. Organize your program so as to minimize additional array storage beyond the input and output arrays.
  6. Prove that a polynomial of degree n is uniquely determined by its values at n + 1 distinct points.

  2.7 A review
  Here is a quick review of the algorithms that we studied in this chapter.
    Sorting is an easy computational problem. The most obvious way to sort an array elements takes time Θ(n^2). We discussed a recursive algorithm that sorts in an average time of Θ(n log n).
    Finding a maximum independent set in a graph is a hard computational problem. The most obvious way to do it might take time Θ(2^n) if the graph G has n vertices. We discussed a recursive method that runs in time O((1.3^n)). The best known methods run in time O((2.2^n)/3).
    Finding out if a graph is k-colorable is a hard computational problem. The most obvious way to do it takes time Θ(k^n), if G has n vertices. We discussed a recursive method that runs in time O((1.62^n) if G has n vertices and E edges. One recently developed method ** runs in time O(((4/3)^n)). We will see in section 5.7 that this problem can be done in an average time that is O(1) for fixed k**.
    Multiplying two matrices is an easy computational problem. The most obvious way to do it takes time Θ(n^3) if the matrices are n × n. We discussed a recursive method that runs in time O((n^(2.8)). A recent method ** runs in time O(n) for some γ < 2.5.

  ** E. Lawler, A note on the complexity of the chromatic number problem, Information Processing Letters 5 (1976), 66-7.
    ** D. Coppersmith and S. Winograd, On the asymptotic complexity of matrix multiplication, SIAM J. Comp. 11 (1980), 472-492.
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![Fig. 2.7.3: The recursive call tree for FFT](path/to/image)

Finally, if we call the ‘power of 2’ version of the FFT algorithm on the sequence \( \{1, -1, i, -i\} \), then FFT will proceed to manufacture the tree shown in Fig. 2.7.3.

It must be emphasized that the creation of the tree of recursions is done by the compiler without any further effort on the part of the programmer. As long as we’re here, how does a compiler go about making such a tree?

It does it by using an auxiliary stack. It adopts the philosophy that if it is asked to do two things at once, well after all, it can’t do that, so it does one of those two things and drops the other request on top of a stack of unfinished business. When it finishes executing the first request, it goes to the top of the stack to find out what to do next.

## Example

Let’s follow the compiler through its tribulations as it attempts to deal with our request for maximum independent set size that appears in Fig. 2.3.3. We begin by asking for the maxset of the 5-cycle. Our program immediately makes two recursive calls to maxset1, each of the two graphs that appear on the second level of the tree in Fig. 2.3.3. The stack is initially empty.

The compiler says to itself ‘I can’t do these both at once’, and it puts the right-hand graph (involving vertices 3,4) on the stack, and proceeds to call itself on the left hand graph (vertices 2,3,4,5).

When it tries to do that one, of course, two more graphs are generated, of which the right-hand one (4,5) is dropped onto the stack, on top of the graph that previously lived there, so now two graphs are on the stack, awaiting processing, and the compiler is dealing with the graph (3,4,5).

This time the graph of just one vertex (5) is dropped onto the stack, which now holds three graphs, as the compiler works on (4,5).

Next, that graph is broken up into (5), and an empty graph, which is dutifully dropped onto the stack, so the compiler can work on (5).

Finally, something fruitful happens: the graph (5) has no edges, so the program maxset gives, in its trivial case, very specific instructions as to how to deal with this graph. We now know that the graph that consists of just the single vertex (5) has a maxset value of 1.

The compiler next reacts for the graph on top of the stack, finds that it is the empty graph, which has no edges at all, and therefore its maxset size is 0.

Now it knows the \( n_1 = 1 \) and \( n_2 = 0 \) values that appear in the algorithm maxset, and therefore it can execute the instruction `maxset = max(n1, n1 + 1 + n2)`, from which it finds that the value of maxset for the graph (4,5) is 1, and it continues from there, to dig itself out of the stack of unfinished business.

In general, if it is trying to execute `maxset1` on a graph that has edges, it will drop the graph \( G - \{v^*\} \) on the stack and try to do the graph \( G - \{v\} \).

The reader should try to write out, as a formal algorithm, the procedure that we have been describing, whereby the compiler deals with a recursive computation that branches into two sub-computations until a trivial case is reached.

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Context: # Chapter 2: Recursive Algorithms

## Exercise for section 2.7

1. In Fig. 2.7.3, add to the picture the output that each of the recursive calls gives back to the box above it that made the call.

## Bibliography

A definitive account of all aspects of sorting is in

D. E. Knuth, *The Art of Computer Programming*, Vol. 3: *Sorting and Searching*, Addison Wesley, Reading, MA, 1973.

All three volumes of the above reference are highly recommended for the study of algorithms and discrete mathematics.

An \(O(2^{n/3})\) algorithm for the maximum independent set problem can be found in

R. E. Tarjan and A. Trojanowski, "Finding a maximum independent set", *SIAM J. Computing*, 6 (1977), 537-546.

Recent developments in fast matrix multiplication are traced in

Victor Pan, *How to Multiply Matrices Faster*, Lecture notes in computer science No. 179, Springer-Verlag, 1984.

The realization that the Fourier transform calculation can be speeded up has been traced back to

C. Runge, *Zeits. Math. Phys.*, 48 (1903) p. 443.

and also appears in

C. Runge and H. König, *Die Grundlagen der math. Wissenchaft*, 11, Springer Verlag, Berlin 1924.

The introduction of the method in modern algorithmic terms is generally credited to

J. M. Cooley and J. W. Tukey, "An algorithm for the machine calculation of complex Fourier series", *Mathematics of Computation*, 19 (1965), 297-301.

A number of statistical applications of the method are in

J. M. Cooley, P. A. W. Lewis and P. D. Welch, "The Fast Fourier Transform and its application to time series analysis", in *Statistical Methods for Digital Computers*, Enslin, Ralston and Wilf eds., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1977, 377-423.

The use of the FFT for high precision integer arithmetic is due to

A. Schönhage and V. Strassen, "Schnelle Multiplikation grosser Zahlen", *Computing*, 7 (1971), 281-292.

An excellent account of the above as well as applications of the FFT to polynomial arithmetic is by

A. V. Aho, J. E. Hopcroft and J. D. Ullman, *The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms*, Addison Wesley, Reading, MA, 1974 (chap. 7).
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Context: # 3.6 Layered networks

After augmenting the flow in the original network \( X \), we construct a new layered network, from \( X \) and the newly augmented flow function of \( X \).

The various activities that are now being described may sound like some kind of thinly disguised repackaging of the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm, but they aren’t just that, because here is what can be proved to happen:

1. First, if we start with zero flow in \( X \), make the layered network \( Y \), find a blocking flow in \( Y \), augment the flow in \( X \), make a new layered network \( Y \), find a blocking flow, etc., and then, after at most \( V \) phases (“phase” = layer + block + augment) we will have found the maximum flow in \( X \) and the process will halt.
2. Second, each phase can be done very rapidly. The MPM algorithm, to be discussed in section 3.7, finds a blocking flow in a layered network in time \( O(V) \).

By the height of a layered network \( Y \) we will mean the number of edges in any path from source to sink. The network of Fig. 3.6.1 has height 1. Let’s now show 

**Theorem 3.6.1.** The heights of the layered networks that occur in the consecutive phases of the solution of a network flow problem form a strictly increasing sequence of positive integers. Hence, for a network \( X \) with \( V \) vertices, there can be at most \( V \) places before a maximum flow is found.

Let \( Y(p) \) denote the layered network that is constructed at the \( p^{th} \) phase of the computation and let \( H(p) \) denote the height of \( Y(p) \). We will first prove

**Lemma 3.6.1.** If 

\[
v_0 \to v_1 \to v_2 \to \cdots \to v_m \quad (v_0 = \text{source})
\]

is a path in \( Y(p + 1) \), and if every vertex \( v_i \) (for \( i = 1, \ldots, m \)) of that path also appears in \( Y(p) \), then for every \( a = 0, m \) it is true that if vertex \( v_a \) was in layer \( l \) of \( Y(p) \) then \( 2 \geq b \).

**Proof of lemma:** The result is clearly true for \( a = 0 \). Suppose it is true for \( v_0, v_1, \ldots, v_k \), and suppose \( v_{k+1} \) was in layer \( c \) of network \( Y(p) \). We will show that \( a + 1 \leq c \). Indeed, if not then \( c > a + 1 \). Since \( v_a \) was not present in network \( Y(p) \) since the two vertices were not in the same layers. Hence the flow in \( Y \) between \( v_a \) and \( v_{k+1} \) could not have been affected by the augmentation procedure of phase \( p \). But edge \( v_i \) is in \( Y(p + 1) \). Therefore it represented an edge of \( Y \) that at the beginning of phase \( p + 1 \) was unaffected by phase \( p \), but was not helpful at the beginning of phase \( p \). This contradiction establishes the lemma.

Now we will prove the theorem. Let 

\[
s \to v_1 \to v_2 \to \cdots \to v_{H(p)+1} \to t
\]

be a path from source to sink in \( Y(p + 1) \).

Consider first the case where every vertex of the path also lies in \( Y(p) \) and let \( m = 1 \) (i.e. \( H(p + 1) = a \)). We conclude that \( H(p + 1) > H(p) \). Now we want to exclude the \( v_i \)’s from \( Y(p + 1) \) = \( H(p) \) in the entire path in \( Y(p) \) and \( Y(p + 1) \), and so all of the edges in \( Y \) that the edges of the path represent were helpful both before and after the augmentation step of phase \( p \), contradicting the fact that the blocking flow that was used for the augmentation saturated some edge of the chosen path. The theorem is now proved for the case where the path had all its vertices in \( Y(p) \).

Now suppose that this was not the case. Let \( e' : v_k \to v_{k+1} \) be the first edge of the path whose terminal vertex \( v_{k+1} \) was not in \( Y(p) \). Then the corresponding edges of \( Y \) was unaffected by the augmentation in phase \( p \). It was helpful from \( v_{k} \) at the beginning of phase \( p + 1 \) because \( e' \in Y(p + 1) \) and was unaffected by phase \( p \), yet \( v_{k+1} \notin Y(p) \). The only possibility is that vertex \( v_{k+1} \) would have entered into \( Y \) in the layer \( H(p) \) that contains the sink, but that layer is special, and contains only. Hence, if \( v_a \) is layer of \( Y(p) \), then \( b + 1 = H(p) \). By the lemma once more, \( 2 \geq b + 1 \geq H(p) \), and therefore \( H(p + 1) > H(p) \), completing the proof of Theorem 3.6.1.

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Context: # Chapter 4: Algorithms in the Theory of Numbers

## Theorem 4.2.1
(A worst-case complexity bound for the Euclidean algorithm) Given two positive integers \(a, b\), the Euclidean algorithm will find their greatest common divisor after a cost of at most \(2 \log_2 M + 1\) integer divisions, where \(M = \max(a, b)\).

Before we prove the theorem, let’s return to the example \((a, b) = (13, 21)\) of the display (4.2.2). In that case \(M = 21\) and \(20 \log_2 M + 1 = 9.78\). The theorem asserts that the g.c.d. will be found after about 9 operations. In fact, it was found after 7 operations in that case.

### Proof of theorem:
Suppose first that \(a \geq b\). The algorithm generates a sequence \(a_0, a_1, \ldots\) where \(a_0 = a\), \(a_1 = b\), and \(a_{j+1} = a_j \mod a_{j-1}\) \((j \geq 1)\).

By lemma 4.2.1,

\[
a_{j+1} \leq \frac{a_{j-1} - 1}{2} \leq \frac{a_j}{2}.
\]

Then, by induction on \(j\), it follows that

\[
a_{2j} \leq \frac{4n}{2^j} \quad (j \geq 0)
\]

\[
a_{2j+1} \leq \frac{a_j}{2} \quad (j \geq 0)
\]

and so,

\[
a_j \leq 2^{-|r/2|}M \quad (r = 0, 1, 2, \ldots).
\]

Obviously, the algorithm has terminated if \(a < 1\), and this will have happened when \(r\) is large enough so that \(2^{-|r/2|}M < 1\), i.e., if \(r > 2 \log_2 M\). If \(r < 4\) then after 1 operation we will be in the case \(a < b\) that we have just discussed, and the proof is complete.

The upper bound in the statement of theorem 4.2.1 can be visualized as follows. The number \(log_2 M\) is almost exactly the number of bits in the binary representation of \(M\) (what is ‘exactly’ that number of bits?). Theorem 4.2.1 therefore asserts that we can find the g.c.d. of two integers in a number of operations that is at most a linear function of the number of bits that it takes to represent the two numbers. In brief, we might say that \( \text{Time} = O(\text{bits})\); in the case of Euclid’s algorithm.

## Exercises for section 4.2

1. Write a nonrecursive program, in Basic or Fortran, for the g.c.d. Write a recursive program, in Pascal or a recursive language of your choice, for the g.c.d.

2. Choose 1000 pairs of integers \((n, m)\), at random between 1 and 1000. For each pair, compute the g.c.d. using a recursive program and a nonrecursive program.

   (a) Compare the execution times of the two programs.

   (b) There is a theorem to the effect that the probability that two random integers \(\geq 1\) is \((6/\pi^2)\). What, precisely, do you think that this theorem means by 'the probability that two'? What percentage of the 1000 pairs that you chose had g.c.d. = 1? Compare your observed percentage with \(100 - (6/\pi^2)\).

3. Find out when Euclid lived, and with exactly what words he described his algorithm.

4. Write a program that will light up a pixel in row \(r\) and column \(c\) of your CRT display if and only if \(gcd(n, m) = 1\). Run the program with enough values of \(n\) and \(m\) to fill your screen. If you see any interesting visual patterns, try to explain them mathematically.

5. Show that if \(m\) and \(n\) have a total of \(b\) bits, then Euclid's algorithm will not need more than \(2B + 3\) operations before reaching termination.

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          \text{Let } n = p_1^{r_1} p_2^{r_2} \cdots p_k^{r_k}. \text{ The mapping which associates with each } x \in \mathbb{Z}, \, \text{the } r\text{-tuple } (x_1, x_2, ..., x_r),
          \]
          where \(x_i = x \mod p_i^{r_i} \) (i = 1,...,r), is a ring isomorphism of \( \mathbb{Z}_n \) with the ring of \( r \) -tuples \( (x_1, x_2, ..., x_r) \) in which:
          - (a) \( x_i \in \mathbb{Z}_{p_i^{r_i}} \) (i = 1,...,r) and
          - (b) \( (x_1, ..., x_r) + (y_1, ..., y_r) = (x_1 + y_1, ..., x_r + y_r ) \)
          - (c) \( (x_1, ..., x_r) \cdot (y_1, ..., y_r) = (x_1 \cdot y_1, ..., x_i \cdot y_i) \)
          - (d) In (b), the \(i\)th \( + \) sign on the right side is the addition operation of \( \mathbb{Z}_{p_i^{r_i}} \) and in (c) the \(i\)th \( \, \cdot \) sign is the multiplication operation of \( \mathbb{Z}_{p_i^{r_i}} \), for each i = 1,2,...,r.
          - **Proof:** The proof of theorem 4.5.4 follows at once from the previous theorem.
        
        - **Theorem 4.5.5 ('The Chinese Remainder Theorem'):**
          \[
          \text{Let } m_i (i = 1,...,r) \,  \text{be pairwise relatively prime positive integers, and let}
          \]
          \[
          M = m_1m_2...m_r.
          \]
          Then the mapping that associates with each integer \(x \, (0 \leq x \leq M - 1) \) the \(r\)-tuple \((b_1, ..., b_r), \, \text{where } \, b_i = x \mod m_i (i = 1,...,r), \text{ is a bijection between } \mathbb{Z}_M \text{ and } \mathbb{Z}_{m_1} \times ...  \times \mathbb{Z}_{m_r}.
        
          - **Proof 1:** 
                - We must show that each \( r \)-tuple \( (b_1, ..., b_r) \) such that \( 0 \leq b_i < m_i (i = 1,...,r) \) occurs exactly once. 
                - There are obviously \( M \) such vectors, and so it will be sufficient to show that each of them occurs at most once as the image of some \( x \).
                - In the contrary case, we would have \( x \) and \( x' \) both corresponding to \((b_1, b_2, ..., b_r)\).
                - But then \( x - x' \equiv 0 \mod \, \text{each of} \, m_i. \text{ Hence } x - x' \text{ is divisible by } M = m_1 m_2 ... m_r. \, \text{But } 0 \leq x' < M, \text{ hence } x = x'.
        
          - **Proof 2:** 
                - Here's how to compute a number \( x \) that satisfies the simultaneous congruences \( x \equiv b_i \mod m_i \, (i = 1,....,r).
                - First, by the extended Euclidean algorithm we can quickly find \( t_1, t_2, ..., t_r \), such that \( t_i(M/m_i) + u_im_i = 1 \) for j = 1, ..., r.
                - Then we claim that the number \[ x = \sum_{j=1}^{r} b_j t_j (M/m_j) \text{ satisfies all of the given congruences.}\]
                - Indeed, for each \( k = 1, ..., r \) we have:
                  \[
                  x = \sum_{j=1}^{r} b_j t_j (M/m_j)
                  \]
                  \[
                  \equiv b_k t_k (M/m_k) \mod m_k \equiv b_k (mod \, m_k)
                  \]
                  - where the first congruence holds because \( t_j (M/m_j), j \neq k) \equiv 0 \mod m_k \) is divisible by \( m_k \), and the second congruence follows since \[
                  t_k(M/m_k) = 1 - u_k m_k \equiv 1 \mod m_k,
                  \]
                  completing the second proof of the Chinese Remainder Theorem.

          - **Conclusion:** Now the proof of theorem 4.5.4 follows easily, and is left as an exercise for the reader. 
            - The factorization that is described in detail in theorem 4.5.4 will be written symbolically as:
              \[
              \mathbb{Z}_n \cong \bigoplus_{i=1}^{r} \mathbb{Z}_{p_i^{r_i}}. (4.5.2)
              \]
            - The factorization (4.5.2) of the ring \(\mathbb{Z}_n\) induces a factorization:
              \[
              U_{n} \cong \bigoplus_{i=1}^{r} U_{p_i^{r_i}}. (4.5.3)
              \]

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Context: # Chapter 4: Algorithms in the Theory of Numbers

of the group of units. Since \( U_n \) is a group, (4.5.3) is an isomorphism of the multiplicative structure only. In \( \mathbb{Z}_{12} \), for example, we find

\[
U_{12} \cong U_2 \times U_3
\]

where \( U_2 = \{1\} \), \( U_3 = \{1, 2\} \). So \( U_{12} \) can be thought of as the set \( \{(1, 1), (1, 2), (3, 1), (3, 2)\} \), together with the componentwise multiplication operation described above.

## Exercises for section 4.5

1. Give a complete proof of theorem 4.5.4.
2. Find all primitive roots modulo 18.
3. Find all primitive roots modulo 27.
4. Write out the multiplication table of the group \( U_{27} \).
5. Which elements of \( \mathbb{Z}_{11} \) are squares?
6. Which elements of \( \mathbb{Z}_{13} \) are squares?
7. Find all \( x \in U_{27} \) such that \( x^2 \equiv 1 \).
8. Prove that if there is a primitive root modulo \( n \) then the equation \( x^2 \equiv 1 \) in the group \( U_n \) has only the solutions \( x \equiv \pm 1 \).
9. Find a number \( a \) that is congruent to 1, 7 and 11 to the respective modulus 5, 11 and 17. Use the method in the second proof of the remainder theorem 4.5.5.
10. Write out the complete proof of the ‘immediate’ corollary 4.5.3.

### 4.6 Pseudoprimality tests

In this section we will discuss various tests that might be used for testing the compositeness of integers probabilistically.

By a **pseudoprimality test** we mean a test that is applied to a pair \( (n, b) \) of integers, and that has the following characteristics:
- (a) The possible outcomes of the test are ‘n is composite’ or ‘inconclusive.’
- (b) If the test reports ‘n is composite’ then n is composite.
- (c) The test runs in a time that is polynomial in \( \log n \).

If the test result is ‘inconclusive’ then we say that \( n \) is pseudoprime to the base \( b \) (which means that \( b \) is far acting like a prime number, as far as we can tell).

The outcome of the test of the primality of \( n \) depends on the base \( b \) that is chosen. In a good pseudoprimality test there will be many bases \( b \) that will give the correct answer. More precisely, a good pseudoprimality test will, with high probability (i.e., for a large number of choices of the base \( b \)) declare that a composite \( n \) is composite. In more detail, we will say that a pseudoprimality test is ‘good’ if there is a fixed positive number \( t \) such that every composite integer \( n \) is declared to be composite for at least \( t \) choices of the base \( b \) in the interval \( [1, \: S(n)] \).

Of course, given an integer \( n \), it is silly to say that ‘there is a high probability that \( n \) is prime’ either in its prime or isn’t, and we should not blame our ignorance on its itself. Nonetheless, the abuse of language is sufficiently appealing that we will define the problem away: we will say that a given integer \( n \) is very probably prime if we have subjected it to a good pseudoprimality test, with a large number of different bases \( b \), and have found that it is pseudoprime to all of those bases.

Here are four examples of pseudoprimality tests, only one of which is ‘good.’

### Test 1

Given \( n, \: b \). Output \( n \) is `composite` if \( b \) divides \( n \), else `inconclusive`.

This isn’t the good one. If \( n \) is composite, the probability that it will be so declared is the probability that we happen to have found a \( b \) that divides \( n \), where \( b \) is not \( 1 \) or \( n \). The probability of this event, if \( b \) is chosen uniformly at random from \( [1, \: n] \) is:

\[
p_1 = \frac{d(n) - 2}{n}
\]

where \( d(n) \) is the number of divisors of \( n \). Certainly \( p_1 \) is not bounded from below by a positive constant \( t \), if \( n \) is composite.
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- Carmichael numbers: Specific composite numbers that behave like primes under certain tests are highlighted.
  
### Summary
The document analyzed focuses on pseudoprimality tests used to determine if a number is composite or prime. The presented tests involve modular arithmetic and mathematical proofs, making it clear and comprehensive for those studying number theory.
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Context: # 4.6 Pseudorandomity tests

## Test 2
Given \( n \). Output \( n \) is composite if \( \gcd(b, n) \neq 1 \), else output ‘inconclusive.’

This one is a little better, but not yet good. If it is composite, the number of bases \( b \leq k \) for which Test 2 will produce the result ‘composite’ is \( n - \phi(n) \), where \(\phi\) is the Euler totient function, of (4.1.5). This number of useful bases will be large if \( n \) has some small prime factors, but in that case it’s easy to find out that \( n \) is composite by other methods. If \( n \) has only a few large prime factors, say if \( n = p^k \), then the proportion of useful bases is very small, and we have the same kind of inefficiency as in Test 1 above.

Now we can state the third pseudorandomity test.

## Test 3
Given \( n \). (If \( b \) and \( n \) are not relatively prime or) if \( n \equiv 1 \,(\text{mod}\, n) \) then output \( n \) is composite; else output ‘inconclusive.’

Regrettably, the test is still not ‘good,’ but it’s a lot better than its predecessors. To cite an extreme case of its un-goodness, there exist composite numbers \( n \), called Carmichael numbers, with the property that the pair \( (b, n) \) produces the output ‘inconclusive’ for every integer \( b \) that is relatively prime to \( n \). An example of such a number is \( n = 1729 \), which is composite (\( 1729 = 17 \cdot 101 \)), but for which Test 3 gives the result ‘inconclusive’ on every integer \( b < 1729 \) that is relatively prime to \( 1729 \) (i.e., that is not divisible by \( 7 \) or \( 13 \) or \( 19 \)).

Despite such misbehavior, the test usually seems to perform quite well. When \( n = 169 \) (a difficult integer for Tests 1 and 2) it turns out that there are \( 158 \) different \( b \in [1, 168] \) that produce the ‘composite’ outcome from Test 3, namely every such \( b \) except for \( 19, 22, 23, 70, 80, 89, 96, 147, 150, 168 \).

Finally, we will describe a good pseudorandomity test. The familial resemblance to Test 3 will be apparent.

## Test 4 (the strong pseudorandomity test)
Given \( (n, k) \). Let \( n = 1 \cdot 2^m \), where \( m \) is an odd integer. If either
- (a) \( b^m \equiv 1 \,(\text{mod}\, n) \) or
- (b) there is an integer \( i \in [0, q - 1] \) such that \( b^{n^2} \equiv -1 \,(\text{mod}\, n) \)

then return ‘inconclusive’; else return ‘is composite.’

First we validate the test by proving the Proposition. 

### Proposition
If the test returns the message \( n \) is composite, then \( n \) is composite.

**Proof:** Suppose not. Then \( n \) is an odd prime. We claim that 

\[
b^{m^2} \equiv 1 \,(\text{mod}\, n)
\]

for all \( i = q, q - 1, \ldots, 0 \). If so then the case \( i = 0 \) will contradict the outcome of the test, and thereby complete the proof. To establish the claim, it is clearly true when \( i = q \) by Fermat’s theorem. If true for \( i \), then it is true for \( i - 1 \), because 

\[
(b^{m^{i-1}})^2 \equiv b^{m^2} \equiv 1 \,(\text{mod}\, n) 
\]

implies that the quantity being squared is \( +1 \) or \( -1 \). Since \( n \) is an odd prime, by corollary 4.5.3 \( U_n \) is cyclic, and so the equation \( x^2 \equiv 1 \,(\text{mod}\, n) \) has only the solutions \( x \equiv \pm 1 \). But \( -1 \) is ruled out by the outcome of the test, and the proof of the claim is complete.

What is the computational complexity of the test? Consider first the computational problem of raising a number to a power. We can calculate, for example, \( b^2, b^4, b^8, \ldots \), by squaring, and reducing modulus immediately after each squaring operation, rather than waiting until the final exponent is reached. Then we use the binary expansion of the exponent to tell us which of these powers of \( b \) we should multiply together in order to compute \( b^n \). For instance,

\[
b^{37} = b^{32} \cdot b^{4} \cdot b^{1}.
\]

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        ```
        4.6 Pseudoprimality tests

        Test 2. Given b, n. Output ‘n is composite’ if gcd(b, n) ≠ 1, else output ‘inconclusive.’

        This one is a little better, but not yet good. If n is composite, the number of bases b ≤ n for which Test 2 will produce the
        result ‘composite’ is tn - 6(n)), where t() is the Euler totient function, of (4.1.5). This number of useful bases will be large
        if n has some small prime factors, but in that case it’s easy to find out that n is composite by other methods. if n has only a few
        large prime factors, say if n=ps, then the proportion of useful bases is very small, and we have the same kind of inefficiency as in
        Test 1 above.

        Now we can state the third pseudoprimality test.

        Test 3. Given b, n. (If b and n are not relatively prime or if bn - 7 ≠ 1 (mod n)) then output 'n is composite’; else output
        'inconclusive.’

        Regrettably, the test is still not ‘good,’ but it’s a lot better than its predecessors. To cite an extreme case of its un-goodness, there
        exist composite numbers n, called Carmichael numbers, with the property that the pair (b, n) produces the output ‘inconclusive’ for
        every integer b in [1, n - 1] that is relatively prime to n. An example of such a number is n = 1729, which is composite (1729 = 7 · 13
        · 19), but for which Test 3 gives the result ‘inconclusive’ on every integer b € 1729 that is relatively prime to 1729 (i.e., that is not
        divisible by 7 or 13 or 19).

        Despite such misbehavior, the test usually seems to perform quite well. When n=169 (a difficult integer for Tests 1 and 2) it turns
        out that there are 158 different b’s in [1, 168] that produce the ‘composite’ outcome from Test 3, namely every such b except for
        19, 22, 23, 70, 80, 89, 99, 146, 147, 150, 168.

        Finally, we will describe a good pseudoprimality test. The familial resemblance to Test 3 will be apparent.
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Context: Test 4 (the strong pseudoprimality test): Given (b, n). Let n =1 - 2^q, where m is an old integer. If either 
        (a) b^m ≠ 1 (modn) or 
        (b) there is an integer i in [0, q- 1] such that
                                                                         b^mi ≠ -1 (modn) then return ‘inconclusive’ else return ‘n is composite.’ 
        First we validate the test by proving the

                Proposition. If the test returns the message ‘n is composite,’ then n is composite.

        Proof: Suppose not. Then n is an odd prime. We claim that
                                                                b^m ≡ 1 (modn) for all i = q, q — 1,..,, 0. If so then the case i = 0 will
        contradict the outcome of the test, and thereby complete the proof. To establish the claim, it is clearly true when i = q by
        Fermat’s theorem. If true for I, then it is true for i – 1 also, because

                                                                         (bm+1)2 == bm+2≡ 1 (mod n)
        implies that the quantity being squared is +1 or -1. Since n is an odd prime, by corollary 4.5.3 Un is cyclic, and so the equation
        z^2 = 1 in Un has only the solutions z = ±1. But -1 is ruled out by the outcome of the test, and the proof of the claim is complete.
           (q.e.d.)

        What is the computational complexity of the test? Consider first the computational problem of raising a number to a power.
        We can calculate, for example, bn mod n with O(log n) integer multiplications, by successive squaring. More precisely, we
        compute b, b^2, b^4, b^8,… by squaring, and reducing modulo n immediately after each squaring operation, rather than waiting
        until the final exponent is reached. Then we use the binary expansion of the exponent to tell us which of these powers of b we
        should multiply together in order to compute bp. For instance,

                                            b337 = b256 . b64 . b16 . b.                                                     93

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Context: Test 2. Given \( n \). Output \( n \) is composite if \(\gcd(n, b) \neq 1\), else output `inconclusive`.

This one is a little better, but not yet good. If \( n \) is composite, the number of bases \( b \leq n \) for which Test 2 will produce the result `composite` is \( n - \varphi(n) \), where \(\varphi\) is the Euler totient function (of 4.1.5). This number of useful bases will be large if \( n \) has some small prime factors, but in that case it’s easy to find out that \( n \) is composite by other methods. If \( n \) has only a few large prime factors, say \( n = p^k \), then the proportion of useful bases is very small, and we have the same kind of inefficiency as in Test 1 above.

Now we can state the third pseudoprimality test.

Test 3. Given \( n \). (If \( b \) and \( n \) are not relatively prime or) if \( b \neq 1 \) (mod \( n \)), then output \( n \) is composite; else output `inconclusive`.

Regrettably, the test is still not `good`, but it’s a lot better than its predecessors. To cite an extreme case of its un-goodness, there exist composite numbers \( n \), called Carmichael numbers, with the property that the pair \( (n, b) \) produces the output `inconclusive` for every integer \( b \in [1, n-1] \) that is relatively prime to \( n \). An example of such a number is \( n = 1729 \), which is composite (\(1729 = 17 \times 101\)), but for which Test 3 gives the result `inconclusive` on every integer \( b < 1729 \) that is relatively prime to 1729 (i.e., that is not divisible by \( 7 \) or \( 13 \) or \( 19 \)).

Despite such misbehavior, the test usually seems to perform quite well. When \( n = 169 \) (a difficult integer for Tests 1 and 2) it turns out that there are 158 different \( b \in [1, 168] \) that produce the `composite` outcome from Test 3, namely every such \( b \) except for \( 19, 22, 23, 70, 80, 89, 96, 147, 150, 168 \).

Finally, we will describe a good pseudoprimality test. The familial resemblance to Test 3 will be apparent.

Test 4. (The strong pseudoprimality test): Given \( (n, k) \). Let \( n - 1 = 2^m \cdot q \), where \( m \) is an odd integer. If either 
- (a) \( b^m \equiv 1 \) (mod \( n \)) or 
- (b) there is an integer \( i \in [0, q - 1] \) such that \( b^{2^i \cdot q} \equiv -1 \) (mod \( n \)) 

then return `inconclusive`; else return `n is composite`.

First we validate the test by proving the

**Proposition.** If the test returns the message `n is composite`, then \( n \) is composite.

**Proof.** Suppose not. Then \( n \) is an odd prime. We claim that:

\[
b^{m} \equiv 1 \text{ (mod } n)
\]

for all \( i = 0, q - 1, \ldots, 0 \). If so then the case \( i = 0 \) will contradict the outcome of the test, and thereby complete the proof. To establish the claim, it is clearly true when \( i = q \) by Fermat's theorem. If true for \( i \) it is true for \( i - 1 \), because 

\[
(b^{2^{i-1}})^2 = b^{2^i} \equiv 1 \text{ (mod } n)
\]

implies that the quantity being squared is \( +1 \) or \( -1 \). Since \( n \) is an odd prime, by corollary 4.5.3 \( U_n \) is cyclic, and so the equation \( x^2 \equiv 1 \) in \( U_n \) has only the solutions \( x \equiv \pm 1 \). But \( -1 \) is ruled out by the outcome of the test, and the proof of the claim is complete.

What is the computational complexity of the test? Consider first the computational problem of raising a number to a power. We can calculate, for example, \( b^k \) mod \( n \) with \( O(\log k) \) integer multiplications, by successive squaring. More precisely, we compute \( b^1, b^2, b^4, b^8, \ldots \) by squaring, and reducing modulo \( n \) immediately after each squaring operation, rather than waiting until the final exponent is reached. Then we use the binary expansion of the exponent to tell us which of these powers of \( b \) we should multiply together in order to compute \( b^n \). For instance,

\[
b^{37} = b^{32} \cdot b^{4} \cdot b^{1}.
\]

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     - \( b^{n-1} \equiv 1 (\mod n) \)
     - \( b \not\equiv \pm 1 (\mod n) \)
     - \( b^{qj} \equiv \{ 1 (\mod n), n-1 (\mod n) \} \)
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  - **Test 2:** Describes a pseudoprimality test which checks if \( \gcd(b, n) \neq 1 \) and \( b^{n-1} \equiv 1 \) mod \( n \). If neither condition is met, it outputs ‘composite’; otherwise, ‘inconclusive’.
  - **Test 3:** Enhances Test 2 by addressing Carmichael numbers which might produce false negatives in primality tests.
  - **Test 4:** (The strong pseudoprimality test) adds conditions under which \( b^{n-1} \equiv 1 \) mod \( n \) can be checked for composite \( n \). 
  - A proposition validates that if Test 4 returns ‘composite’, \( n \) indeed is composite.
  - The proof for the proposition is based on modular arithmetic and Fermat’s theorem, concluding that the test is conclusive in its composite determination.
  - There's a final note on the computational complexity of exponentiation in modular arithmetic.

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- The document details specific testing processes (Tests 2, 3, and 4) that determine the primality of a number based on certain conditions.

**Prozessbeschreibungen (Process Descriptions):**
- *Test 2 Process:* Computes gcd and verifies modular condition.
- *Test 3 Process:* Adjusts Test 2 for Carmichael numbers and verifies the primality.
- *Test 4 Process:* Strong test that verifies primality through an enhanced modular condition and proves conclusively if a number is composite.
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The complete power algorithm is recursive and looks like this:

```markdown
function power(b, m, n):
    {returns b^m mod n}
    if m = 0 then
        power := 1
    else
        t := sqrt(power(b, [m/2], n));
        if m is odd then
            t := t * b;
        power := t mod n
    end {power}
```

Hence part (a) of the strong pseudoprimality test can be done in \( O(\log n) = O(\log n) \) multiplications of integers of at most \( O(\log n) \) bits each. Similarly, in part (b) of the test there are \( O(\log n) \) possible values of \( i \) to check, and for each of them we do a single multiplication of two integers each of which has \( O(\log n) \) bits (this argument, of course, applies to Test 3 above also).

The entire test requires, therefore, some low power of log bit operations. For instance, if we were to use the most obvious way to multiply two B bit numbers we would do \( O(B^2) \) bit operations, and then the above test would take \( O(\log^3 n) \) time. This is a polynomial in the number of bits of input.

In the next section we are going to prove that Test 1 is a good pseudoprimality test in that if \( n \) is composite then at least half of the integers \( 1 \leq b \leq n - 1 \) will yield the result "n is composite" in the strong pseudoprimality test. 

For example, if \( n = 169 \), then it turns out that for 157 of the possible 168 bases \( b \in [1, 168] \), Test 4 will prove "169 is composite." The only bases b that 169 can fool are 19, 22, 23, 70, 80, 89, 96, 146, 147, 150, 168. For this case of \( n = 169 \) the performances of Test 4 and Test 3 are identical. However, there are no analogues of the Carmichael numbers for Test 4.

## Exercises for section 4.6

1. Given an odd integer \( n \). Let \( T(n) \) be the set of all \( b \in [1,n] \) such that \( \text{gcd}(b,n) = 1 \) and \( b^{n-1} \equiv 1 \mod n \). Show that \( |T(n)| \) divides \( \varphi(n) \).
2. Let \( B \) be a cyclic group of order \( n \). How many elements of each order \( r \) are there in \( H \) (if divides \( n \))?
3. If \( n = p^k \), where \( p \) is an odd prime, then the number of \( x \in U_n \) such that \( x \) has exact order \( r \) is \( \varphi(r) \) for all divisors of \( \varphi(n) \). In particular, the number of primitive roots modulo \( n \) is \( O(\varphi(n)) \).
4. If \( n = p_1^{k_1} p_2^{k_2} \cdots p_m^{k_m} \) and if \( r \) divides \( \varphi(n) \), then the number of \( x \in U_r \) such that \( x^{e} \equiv 1 \mod n \) is 

\[
\prod_{i=1}^{m} \text{gcd}(\varphi(p_i^{k_i}), r).
\]

5. In a group \( G \) suppose \( f_n \) and \( g_n \) are, respectively, the number of elements of order \( m \) and the number of solutions of the equation \( x^m = 1 \) for each \( n = 1, 2, \ldots \). What is the relationship between these two sequences? That is, how would you compute the \( g_n \) from the \( f_n \) and the \( f_n \) from the \( g_n \)? If you have ever seen a question of this kind, look in any book on the theory of numbers; find Möbius inversion, and apply it to this problem.

## 4.7 Proof of goodness of the strong pseudoprimality test

In this section we will show that if \( n \) is composite, then at least half of the integers \( b \in [1, n - 1] \) will yield the result "n is composite" in the strong pseudoprimality test. The basic idea of the proof is that a subgroup of a group that is not the entire group can consist of at most half of the elements of that group.

Suppose a base factoration 

\[
n = p_1^{k_1} \cdots p_s^{k_s}
\]

and let \( n_i = p_i^{a_i} (i = 1, s) \).
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## Lemma 4.7.1
The order of each element of \( U_n \) is a divisor of \( e' = \text{lcm}(\phi(i) : i = 1, \ldots, s) \).

**Proof:** From the product representation (4.5.3) of \( U_n \), we find that an element of \( U_n \) can be regarded as an \( s \)-tuple of elements from the cyclic groups \( U_{d_i} \), \( (i = 1, \ldots, s) \). The order of \( x \) is equal to the lcm of the orders of the elements of the \( s \)-tuple. For each \( i = 1, \ldots, s \), the order of the \( i \)-th element is a divisor of \( \phi(i) \), and therefore the order of \( x \) divides the item shown above.

## Lemma 4.7.2
Let \( n > 1 \) be odd. For each element of \( U_n \), let \( C(x) = \{ 1, x, \ldots, x^{e-1} \} \) denote the cyclic group that it generates. Let \( B \) be the set of all elements of \( U_n \) for which \( C(y) \) either contains \(-1\) or odd order (i.e., \( \text{ord}(y) \) odd). If \( B \) generates the full group \( U_n \), then \( n \) is a prime power.

**Proof:** Let \( e' = 2^m \), where \( m \) is odd and \( e' \) is as shown in lemma 4.7.1. Then there is a \( j \) such that \( \phi(n) \) is divisible by \( 2^j \).

Now if \( n \) is a prime power, we are finished. So we can suppose that \( n \) is divisible by more than one prime number. Since \( \phi(n) \) is an even number for all \( n > 2 \) (proof?), the number \( e' \) is even. Hence \( t > 0 \) and we can define a mapping \( \psi \) of the group \( U_n \) to itself by

\[
\psi(x) = x^{2^{m-1}} \quad (x \in U_n)
\]

(note that \( \psi \) is its own inverse).

This is in fact a group homomorphism.

For each \( x \in U_k \): \( \psi(xy) = \psi(x)\psi(y) \).

Let \( B \) be as in the statement of lemma 4.7.2. For each \( x \in B \), \( \psi(x) \in B \) and 

\[
\psi^2(x) = \psi(x).
\]

Since \( \psi(y) \) is an element of \( C(y) \) whose square is 1, \( \psi(y) \) has order 1 or 2. Hence if \( \psi(y) \neq 1 \), it is of order 2. If the cyclic group \( C(y) \) is of odd order then it contains \(-1\). It then can contain no other element of order 2, so \( \psi(y) = -1 \) in this case.

Hence for every \( x \in B \), \( \psi(x) = 1 \).

Suppose \( B \) generates the full group \( U_n \). Then not only for every \( x \in B \) but for every \( z \in U_n \) is true that \( \psi(z) = 1 \).

Suppose \( n \) is not a prime power. Then \( s > 1 \) in the factorization (4.5.2) of \( U_n \). Consider the element \( v \in U_n \), which, when written out as an \( s \)-tuple according to that factorization, is of the form

\[
v = (1, 1, \ldots, 1, y, 1, \ldots, 1)
\]

where the \( y \) is in the \( j \)-th component, \( y \in U_k \) (recall that \( j \) is described above, in the second sentence of this proof). We can suppose \( y \) to be an element of order exactly \( 2 \) in \( U_n \), since \( U_k \) is cyclic.

Consider \( \psi(y) \). Clearly \( \psi(y) \) is not 1, for otherwise the order of \( y \), namely \( 2^{1} \), would divide \( 2^{m-1} \), which is impossible because \( m \) is odd.

Also, \( \psi(y) \) is not \(-1\), because the element \(-1\) of \( U_n \) is represented uniquely by the \( s \)-tuple all of whose entries are \(-1\). Thus \( y \) is neither 1 nor \(-1\), which contradicts the italicized assertion above. Hence \( s = 1 \) and \( n \) is a prime power, completing the proof.

Now we can prove the main result of Solovay, Strassen and Rabin, which asserts that Test 4 is good.

## Theorem 4.7.1
Let \( B' \) be the set of integers \( m \) such that \( (n, m) \) returns ‘inconclusive’ in Test 4.  
(a) If \( B' \) generates \( U_n \), then \( n \) is prime.  
(b) If \( B' \) consists of at most half of the integers in \( [1, n-1] \).  

**Proof:** Suppose \( B' \) and let \( m \) be the odd part of \( n - 1 \). Then either \( m \equiv 1 \mod 2^{r} - 1 \) for some \( i \in [0, n-1] \). In the former case the cyclic subgroup \( C(y) \) has odd order, since \( m \) is odd, and in the latter case \( C(y) \) contains \(-1\).

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Hence in either case \( B' \subset B \), where \( B \) is the set defined in the statement of lemma 4.7.2 above. If \( B' \) generates the full group \( U_n \), then \( B \) does too, and by lemma 4.7.2, \( n \) is a prime power, say \( n = p^k \). Also, in either of the above cases we have \( b^n \equiv 1 \), so the same holds for all \( b \in B' \), and so for all \( x \in U_n \), we have \( x^{n-1} \equiv 1 \), since \( B \) generates \( U_n \).

Now, \( g \) is cyclic or order 

\[
\phi(n) = \phi(p^k) = p^{k-1}(p - 1).
\]

By theorem 4.5.3 there are primitive roots modulo \( n = p^k \). Let \( g \) be one of these. The order of \( g \) is, on the one hand, \( p^{k-1}(p - 1) \) since the set of all its powers is identical with \( U_n \), and on the other hand is a divisor of \( n - 1 = p^k - 1 \) since \( x^{n-1} \equiv 1 \) for all \( x \), and in particular for \( g \).

Hence \( p^{k-1}(p - 1) \) (which, if \( k > 1 \), is a multiple of \( p \)) divides \( p^k - 1 \) (which is one less than a multiple of \( p \)), and so \( k = 1 \), which completes the proof of part (a) of the theorem.

In part (b), \( n \) is composite and so \( B' \) cannot generate all of \( U_n \) by part (a). Hence \( B' \) generates a proper subgroup of \( U_n \), and so can contain at most half as many elements as \( U_n \) contains, and the proof is complete.

Another application of the same circle of ideas to compute elegant occurrences in the generation of random numbers on a computer. A good way to do this is to choose a primitive root modulo the word size of your computer, and then, each time the user asks for a random number, output the next highest power of the primitive root. The fact that you started with a primitive root insures that the number of 'random numbers' generated before repetition sets in will be as large as possible. 

Now we’ll summarize the way in which the primality test is used. Suppose there is a large integer \( n \), and we would like to determine if it is prime. We define 

``` 
function test(n, outcome);
    times := 0; 
repeat 
    choose an integer \( r \) uniformly at random in \( [2, n-1] \);
    apply the strong pseudorandomity test (Test 4) to the 
    pair \( (n, r) \); 
    times := times + 1 
until [result='n is composite' or times = 100]; 
    if times = 100 then outcome:='n probably prime' 
    else outcome:='n is composite' 
end(test) 
```

If the procedure exits with 'n is composite', then we can be certain that \( n \) is not prime. If we want to see the factors of \( n \) then it will be necessary to use some factorization algorithm, such as the one described below in section 4.9.

On the other hand, if the procedure halts because it has been through 100 trials without a conclusive result, then the integer \( n \) is very probably prime. More precisely, the chance that a composite integer \( n \) would have behaved like that is less than \( 2^{-100} \). If we want certainty, however, it will be necessary to apply a test whose outcome will prove primality, such as the algorithm of Adleman, Rumely and Pomerance, referred to earlier.

In section 4.9 we will discuss a probabilistic factoring algorithm. Before doing so, in the next section we will present a remarkable application of the complexity of the factoring problem, to cryptography. Such applications remind us that primality and factorization algorithms have important applications beyond pure mathematics, in areas of vital public concern.

## Exercises for section 4.7

1. For \( n = 9 \) and for \( n = 15 \) find all of the cyclic groups \( C(u), \) of lemma 4.7.2, and find the set \( B \).
2. For \( n = 9 \) and \( n = 15 \) find the set \( B', \) of theorem 4.7.1.

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A computationally intractable problem can be used to create secure codes for the transmission of information over public channels of communication. The idea is that those who send the messages to each other will have extra pieces of information that will allow them to solve the intractable problem rapidly, whereas an aspiring eavesdropper would be faced with an exponential amount of computation.

Even if we don’t have a provably computationally intractable problem, we can still take a chance that those who might intercept our messages won’t know polynomial-time algorithms if we don’t know any. Since there are precious few provably hard problems, and hordes of apparently hard problems, it is scarcely surprising that a number of sophisticated coding senders rely on the latter rather than the former. One should remember, though, that an adversary might discover fast algorithms for doing these problems and keep that fact secret while deepening all of our messages.

A remarkable feature of a family of recently developed coding schemes, called ‘Public Key Encryption Systems’, is that the ‘key’ to the code lies in the public domain, so it can be easily available to sender and receiver (and eavesdropper), and can be readily changed if need be. On the negative side, the most widely used Public Key Systems lean on computational problems that are only presumed to be intractable, like factoring large integers, rather than having been proved so.

We are going to discuss a Public Key System called the RSA scheme, after its inventors: Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman. This particular method depends for its success on the seeming intractability of the problem of finding the factors of large integers. If that problem could be done in polynomial time, then the RSA system could be ‘cracked.’

In this system, there are three centers of information: the sender of the message, the receiver of the message, and the Public Domain (for instance, the ‘Personals’ ads of the New York Times). Here is how the system works.

## (A) Who knows what and when

Here are the items of information that are involved, and who knows each item:

- **p, q**: two large prime numbers, chosen by the receiver, and told to nobody else (not even to the sender!).
- **n**: the product pq, and this is placed in the Public Domain.
- **E**: a random integer, placed in the Public Domain by the receiver, who has first made sure that \(E\) is relatively prime to \((p-1)(q-1)\) by computing the g.c.d. and choosing a new \(E\) at random until the g.c.d. is 1. This is easy for the receiver to do because \(p\) and \(q\) are known to him, and the g.c.d. calculation is fast.
- **P**: a message that the sender would like to send, thought of as a string of bits whose value, when regarded as a binary number, lies in the range \([0, n-1]\).

In addition to the above, one more item of information is computed by the receiver, and that is the integer **D** that is the multiplicative inverse mod \((p-1)(q-1)\) of \(E\), i.e.,

\[ DE \equiv 1 \, (\text{mod} \, (p-1)(q-1)). \]

Again, since \(p\) and \(q\) are known, this is a fast calculation for the receiver, as we shall see.

To summarize:

- The receiver knows \(p\), \(q\), \(D\).
- The sender knows \(P\).
- Everybody knows \(n\) and \(E\).

In Fig. 4.8.1, we show the interiors of the heads of the sender and receiver, as well as the contents of the Public Domain.
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Fig. 4.8.1: Who knows what

## (B) How to send a message

The sender takes the message \( P \), looks at the public keys \( E \) and \( n \), computes \( C = P^E \mod n \), and transmits \( C \) over the public airwaves.

Note that the sender has no private codebook or anything secret other than the message itself.

## (C) How to decode a message

The receiver receives \( C \) and computes \( C^D \mod n \). Observe, however, that \( (p-1)(q-1) \) is \( \phi(n) \), and so we have:

\[
C^D \equiv P^{DE} \equiv P^{(1+k\phi(n))} \quad (t \text{ is some integer})
\]
\[
\equiv P \quad (\text{mod } n)
\]

where the last equality is by Fermat’s theorem (4.5.1). The receiver has now recovered the original message \( P \).

If the receiver suspects that the code has been broken, i.e., that the adversaries have discovered the primes \( p \) and \( q \), then the sender can change them without having to send any secret messages to anyone else. Only the public numbers \( n \) and \( E \) would change. The sender would not need to be informed of any other changes.

Before proceeding, the reader is urged to construct a little scenario. Make up a short (very short!) message. Choose values for the other parameters that are needed to complete the picture. Send the message as the sender would, and decode it as the receiver would. Then try to intercept the message, as an eavesdropper would, and see what the difficulties are.

## (D) How to intercept the message

An eavesdropper who receives the message \( C \) would be unable to decode it without (inventing some entirely new decoding scheme or) knowing the inverse \( D \) of \( E \) (mod \( (p-1)(q-1) \)). The eavesdropper, however, does not even know the modulus \( n = (p-1)(q-1) \) because \( p \) and \( q \) are unknown (only the receiver knows them), and knowing the product \( p \times q = n \) alone is insufficient. The eavesdropper is thereby compelled to derive a polynomial-time factoring algorithm for large integers. May success attend those efforts!

The reader might well remind her that the receiver has a substantial computational problem in creating two large primes \( p \) and \( q \). To a certain extent this is so, but two factors make the task a good deal easier. First, \( p \) and \( q \) will need to have only half as many bits as \( n \) has, so the job is of smaller size. Second, there

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There are methods that will produce large prime numbers very rapidly as long as one is not particular about which primes they are, as long as they are large enough. We will not discuss those methods here.

The elegance of the RSA cryptosystem prompts a few remarks that are intended to reinforce the distinction between exponential- and polynomial-time complexities.

How hard is it to factor a large integer? At this writing, integers of up to perhaps a couple of hundred digits can be approached with some confidence that factorization will be accomplished within a few hours of the computing time of a very fast machine. If we think in terms of a message that is about the length of one typewritten page, then that message would contain about 800 digits, equivalent to about 2400 decimal digits. This is in contrast to the largest feasible length that can be handled by contemporary factoring algorithms of about 200 decimal digits. A one-page message is therefore well into the zone of computational intractability.

How hard is it to find the multiplicative inverse, mod \( p - 1 \) or \( q - 1 \)? If \( p \) and \( q \) are known then it's easy to find the inverse, as we saw in corollary 4.3.1. Finding an inverse mod \( n \) is no harder than carrying out the extended Euclidean algorithm, i.e., it's a linear time job.

## 4.9 Factoring large integers

The problem of finding divisors of large integers is in a much more primitive condition than is primality testing. For example, we don't even know a probabilistic algorithm that will return a factor of a large composite integer, with probability > 1/2, in polynomial time.

In this section, we will discuss a probabilistic factoring algorithm that finds factors in an average time that is only moderately exponential, and that's about the state of the art at present.

Let \( n \) be an integer whose factorization is desired.

### Definition
By a factor base \( B \) we will mean a set of distinct nonzero integers \( \{b_1, b_2, \ldots, b_h\} \).

### Definition
Let \( B \) be a factor base. An integer \( c \) will be called a \( B \)-number if the integer \( c \) is defined by the conditions:

1. \( (a) \quad c \equiv c^2 \, (mod \, n) \)
2. \( (b) \quad -n/2 < c < n/2 \)

can be written as a product of factors from the factor base \( B \).

If we let \( e(a_i) \) denote the exponent of \( b_i \) in that product, then we have

\[
\alpha^2 \equiv \prod_{i=0}^{h} b_i^{e(a_i)} \, (mod \, n).
\]

Hence, for each \( B \)-number we get an \( (h + 1) \)-vector of exponents \( e(a) \).

Suppose we can find enough \( B \)-numbers so that the resulting collection of exponent vectors is a linearly dependent set, mod \( 2 \). For instance, a set of \( h + 2 \) \( B \)-numbers would certainly have that property. Then we could nontrivially represent the zero vector as a sum of a certain set \( A \) of exponent vectors, say

\[
\sum_{i \in A} e(a_i) \equiv (0, 0, \ldots, 0) \, (mod \, 2).
\]

Now define the integers

\[
r_i = (1/2) \sum_{j \in A} e(a_j), \quad (i = 0, 1, \ldots, h)
\]

\[
u = \prod_{i \in A} b_i \, (mod \, n)
\]

\[
v = \prod_{i \in A} b_i^{r_i}.
\]

It then would follow, after an easy calculation, that \( u^2 \equiv v^2 \, (mod \, n) \). Hence either \( v - u \) or \( v + u \) has a factor in common with \( n \). It may be, of course, that \( u \equiv v \, (mod \, n) \), in which case we would have.
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Now comes the hard part. How might we convince an audience that a certain integer \( n \) is a prime number? The rules are that we are allowed to do any immense amount of calculation beforehand, and the results of that calculation can be written on a certificate \( C(n) \) that accompanies the integer \( n \). The audience, however, will need to do only a polynomial amount of further computation in order to convince themselves that \( n \) is prime.

We will describe a primality-checking algorithm \( A \) with the following properties:  
(1) If \( n \) is the integer and \( A \) the action on the input certificate \( C(n) \).  
(2) If \( n \) is prime then the action of \( A \) on the input \( C(n) \) results in the output 'it is prime'.  
(3) If \( n \) is not prime then for every possible certificate \( C'(n) \) the action of \( A \) on the input \( C'(n) \) results in the output 'primality of \( n \) is not verified'.  
(4) Algorithm \( A \) runs in polynomial time.

Now the question is, does such a procedure exist for primality verification? The answer is affirmative, and we will describe one. The fact that primality can be quickly verified, if not quickly discovered, is of great importance for the developments of Chapter 5. In the language of section 5.1, what we are about to do is to show that the problem 'Is \( n \) prime?' belongs to the class NP.

The next lemma is a kind of converse to 'Fermat's little theorem' (theorem 4.52).

## Lemma 4.10.1  
Let \( p \) be a positive integer. Suppose there is an integer \( x \) such that \( x^{p-1} \equiv 1 \ (\text{mod } p) \) and such that for all divisors of \( p-1, 1 < d < p-1 \), we have \( x^d \not\equiv 1 \ (\text{mod } p) \). Then \( p \) is prime.

**Proof:** First we claim that \( \gcd(x, p) = 1 \), for let \( g = \gcd(x, p) \). Then \( g \) divides \( x^{p-1} \equiv 1\ (\text{mod } p) \). Since \( x^{p-1} \equiv 1 \), the right side is \( 1 + tp \) and \( x^{p-1} - tp \equiv 1 \). The left side is a multiple of \( g \). 

It follows that \( g \) divides \( x^{p-1} - 1\). Thus \( g \) is an element of order \( p-1 \) in a group of order \( \varphi(p) \). Hence \( \varphi(p) \leq p-1 \). Since \( \varphi(p) = p - 1 \) and \( p \) is prime.

Lemma 4.10.1 is the basis for V. Pratt's method of constructing certificates of primality. The construction of the certificate is actually recursive since step 3b allows for certificates of smaller primes. We suppose that the certificate of the prime \( 2 \) is the trivial case, and that it can be verified at no cost.

Here is a complete list of the information that is on the certificate \( C(p) \) that accompanies an integer \( p \):

1. \( p_0 \): a list of the primes \( p_i \) and the exponents \( a_i \) for the canonical factorization \( p - 1 = \prod_{i=1}^k p_i^{a_i} \).  
2. \( C_p \): the certificates \( C(p_i) \) of each of the primes \( p_1, \ldots, p_k \).  
3. \( x \): a positive integer \( x \).

To verify that \( p \) is prime we could execute the following algorithm \( B \):

- (B1) Check that \( p - 1 = \prod_{i=1}^k p_i^{a_i} \).  
- (B2) Check that each \( p_i \) is prime, using the certificates \( C(p_i) \) \( (i = 1, r) \).  
- (B3) For each divisor \( d \) of \( p - 1, 1 < d < p - 1 \), check that \( x^d \not\equiv 1 \ (\text{mod } p) \).  
- (B4) Check that \( x^{p-1} \equiv 1 \ (\text{mod } p) \).

This algorithm \( B \) is correct, but it might not operate in polynomial time. In step \( B3 \) we are looking at every divisor of \( p - 1 \), and there may be a lot of them.

Fortunately, it isn't necessary to check every divisor of \( p - 1 \). The reader will have no trouble proving that there is a divisor of \( p - 1 \) (\( d < p - 1 \)) for which \( x^d \equiv 1 \ (\text{mod } p) \) if and only if there is such a divisor that has the special form \( d = (p - 1)/r \).

The primality checking algorithm \( A \) now reads as follows:

- (A1) Check that \( p - 1 = \prod_{i=1}^k p_i^{a_i} \).  
- (A2) Check that each \( p_i \) is prime, using the certificates \( C(p_i) \) \( (i = 1, r) \).  
- (A3) For each \( i = 1 \) to \( r \), check that \( x^{(p-1)/p_i} \not\equiv 1 \ (\text{mod } p) \).

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## Bibliography

The material in this chapter has made extensive use of the excellent review article:

- John D. Dixon, *Factorization and primality tests*, The American Mathematical Monthly, **91** (1984), 333-352.
  
  A basic reference for number theory, Fermat's theorem, etc., is:
  
- G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright, *An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers*, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1954.

Another reference is:
  
- W. J. LeVeque, *Fundamentals of Number Theory*, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1977.

The probabilistic algorithm for compositeness testing was found by:

- M. O. Rabin, *Probabilistic algorithms*, in *Algorithms and Complexity: New Directions and Recent Results*, J. Traub ed., Academic Press, New York, 1976.

and about the same time by:

- R. Solovay and V. Strassen, *A fast Monte Carlo test for primality*, SIAM Journal of Computing, **6** (1977), pp. 84-85; *erratum ibid.*, **7** (1978), 118.

Some empirical properties of that algorithm are in:

- C. Pomerance, J. L. Selfridge and S. Wagstaff Jr., *The pseudoprimes to 25·10⁹*, Mathematics of Computation, **35** (1980), 1003-1026.

The fastest nonprobabilistic primality test appeared first in:

- L. M. Adleman, *On distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers*, IEEE Abstracts, May 1980, 387-406.

A more complete account, together with the complexity analysis, is in:

- L. M. Adleman, C. Pomerance and R. S. Rumely, *On distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers*, Annals of Mathematics **117** (1983), 173-206.

A streamlined version of the above algorithm was given by:

- H. Cohen and H. W. Lenstra Jr., *Primality testing and Jacobi sums*, Report 82-18, Math. Inst. U. of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1982.

The ideas of public key data encryption are due to:

- W. Diffie and M. E. Hellman, *New directions in cryptography*, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-22, 6 (1976), 644-654.

An account of the subject is contained in:

- M. E. Hellman, *The mathematics of public key cryptography*, Scientific American, **241**, 2 (August 1979), 146-157.

The use of factoring as the key to the code is due to:

- R. L. Rivest, A. Shamir and L. M. Adleman, *A method for obtaining digital signatures and public key cryptosystems*, Communications of the ACM, **21**, 2 (February 1978), 120-126.

The probabilistic factoring algorithm in the text is that of:

- John D. Dixon, *Asymptotically fast factorization of integers*, Mathematics of Computation, **36** (1981), 255-260.
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## 5.1 Introduction

In the previous chapter we met two computational problems for which fast algorithms have never been found, but neither have such algorithms been proved to be unmanageable. Those were the primality-testing problem, for which the best-known algorithm is delicately poised on the brink of polynomial time, and the integer-factoring problem, for which the known algorithms are in a more primitive condition.

In this chapter we will meet a large family of such problems (hundreds of them now!). This family is not just a list of seemingly difficult computational problems. It is in fact bound together by strong ties. The collection of problems, called the NP-complete problems, includes many well-known and important questions in discrete mathematics, such as the following:

- **The travelling salesman problem (TSP)**: Given n points in the plane (‘cities’), and a distance D, is there a tour that visits all of the cities, returns to its starting point, and has total length ≤ D?
- **Graph coloring**: Given a graph G and an integer K. Can the vertices of G be properly colored in K or fewer colors?
- **Independent set**: Given a graph G and an integer K. Does V(G) contain an independent set of K vertices?
- **Bin packing**: Given a finite set S of positive integers and an integer N (the number of bins). Does there exist a partition of S into N or fewer subsets such that the sum of the integers in each subset is ≤ K? In other words, can we ‘pack’ the integers of S into at most N ‘bins’, where the ‘capacity’ of each bin is K?

These are very difficult computational problems. Take the graph coloring problem, for instance. We could try every possible way of coloring the vertices of G in K colors to see if any of them work. There are \(K^n\) such possibilities, if G has n vertices. Hence if G has 50 vertices and we have 20 colors at our disposal, the problem would lie far beyond the capabilities of the fastest computers that are now available.

Hard problems can have easy instances. If the graph G happens to have no edges at all, or very few of them, then it will be very easy to find out if a coloring is possible, or if an independent set of K vertices is present.

The real question is this (let's use ‘Independent Set’ as an illustration). Is it possible to design an algorithm that will come packaged with a performance guarantee of the following kind:

> **The seller warrants that if a graph G, of n vertices, and a positive integer K are input to this program, then it will correctly determine if there is an independent set of K or more vertices in V(G), and it will do so in an amount of time that is at most 1000n^k.**

Hence there is no contradiction between the facts that the problem is hard and that there are easy cases. The hardness of the problem stems from the seeming impossibility of producing such an algorithm accompanied by such a manufacturer’s warranty card. Of course the “1000” didn’t have to be exactly that. But some quite specific polynomial in the length of the input bit string must appear in the performance guarantee. Hence “357n” might have appeared in the guarantee, and so might “23n”, but \(n^k\) would not have allowed.

Let’s look carefully at why \(n^k\) would not be an acceptable worst-case polynomial time performance bound. In the ‘Independent Set’ problem the input must describe the graph G and the integer K. How many bits are needed to do that? The graph can be specified, for example, by its vertex adjacency matrix A. This is an \(n \times n\) matrix in which the entry in row i and column j is 1 if \((i,j) \in E(G)\) and 0 else.

Evidently \(n^2\) bits of input will describe the matrix A. The integers K and n can be entered with just \(O(\log n)\) bits, so the entire input bit string for the ‘Independent Set’ problem is at most \(n^2\) bits long, but the number of bits in the input string. Suppose that on the warranty card the program was guaranteed to run in a time that is \(O(n^k)\).

Is this a guarantee of polynomial time performance? That question takes us to the next question: Is there a polynomial P such that for every instance of ‘Independent Set’ the running time T will be at most P(|B|)? Well, is it bounded?

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by a polynomial in B if T = n^K and B ∼ n^2? It would seem so; in fact obviously T = O(B^K), and that’s a polynomial, isn’t it?

The key point resides in the order of the qualifiers. We must give the polynomial that works for every instance of the problem first. Then that one single polynomial must work on every instance. If the 'polynomial' that we give is B(K), well that’s a different polynomial in B for different instances of the problem, because K is different for different instances. Therefore if we say that a certain program for 'Independent Set' will always get an answer before B^K/2 minutes, where B is the length of the input bit string, then we would not have provided a polynomial-time guarantee in the form of a single polynomial in B that applies uniformly to all problem instances.

The distinction is a little thorny, but is worthy of careful study because it’s of fundamental importance. What we are discussing is usually called a worst-case time bound, meaning a bound on the running time that applies to every instance of the problem. Worst-case time bounds aren’t the only possible interesting ones. Sometimes we might not care if an algorithm is occasionally very slow as long as it is almost always fast. In other situations we might be satisfied with an algorithm that is fast on average. For the present, however, we will stick to the worst-case time bounds and study some of the theory that applies to that situation. In sections 5.6 and 5.7 we will study some average time bounds.

Now let’s return to the properties of the NP-complete family of problems. Here are some of them:

1. The problems all seem to be computationally very difficult, and no polynomial time algorithms have been found for any of them.
2. It has been proved that polynomial time algorithms for these problems do not exist.
3. But this is not just a random list of hard problems. If a fast algorithm could be found for one NP-complete problem then there would be fast algorithms for all of them.
4. Conversely, if it could be proved that no fast algorithm exists for one of the NP-complete problems, then there could not be a fast algorithm for any other of those problems.

These properties are not intended to be a definition of the concept of NP-completeness. We’ll get that later on in this section. They are intended as a list of some of the interesting features of these problems, which, when coupled with their theoretical and practical importance, accounts for the intense worldwide research effort that has gone into understanding them in recent years.

The question of the existence or nonexistence of polynomial-time algorithms for the NP-complete problems learns probably falls as the principal unsolved problem that faces theoretical computer science today.

Our next task will be to develop the formal machinery that will permit us to give precise definitions of all of the concepts that are needed. In the remainder of this section we will discuss the additional ideas informally, and then in section 5.2 we’ll state them quite precisely.

## What is a decision problem?

First, the idea of a decision problem. A decision problem is one that asks only for a yes-or-no answer: Can this graph be 5-colored? Is there a tour of length ≤ 15 miles? Is there a set of 67 independent vertices?

Many of them problems that we are studying can be phrased as decision problems or as optimization problems: What is the smallest number of colors with which G can be colored? What is the length of the shortest tour of the cities? What is the size of the largest independent set of vertices in G?

Usually if we find a fast algorithm for a decision problem then just a little more work will be able to solve the corresponding optimization problem. For instance, suppose we have an algorithm that solves the decision problem for graph coloring, and what we want is the solution of the optimization problem (the chromatic number).

Let G be a graph G given, say of 100 vertices. Ask: can the graph be 50-colored? If so, then the chromatic number lies between 1 and 50. Then ask if it can be colored in 25 colors. If not, then the chromatic number lies between 26 and 50. Continue in this way, using bisection of the interval that is known to contain the chromatic number. After O(log n) steps we will have found the chromatic number of a graph of n vertices. The extra multiplicative factor of log n will not alter the polynomial vs. nonpolynomial runing time distinction. Hence if there is a fast way to do the decision problem then there is a fast way to do the optimization problem. The converse is obvious.

Hence we will restrict our discussion to decision problems.
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## What is a language?

Since every decision problem can have only the two answers 'Y/N', we can think of a decision problem as asking if a given word (the input string) does or does not belong to a certain language. The language is the totality of words for which the answer is 'Y'.

The graph 3-coloring language, for instance, is the set of all symmetric, square matrices of 0s and 1s, with zeros on the main diagonal (these are the vertex adjacency matrices of graphs) such that the graph that the matrix represents is 3-colorable. We can imagine that somewhere there is a vast dictionary of all the words in this language. A 3-colorability computation is therefore nothing but an attempt to discover whether a given word belongs to the dictionary.

## What is the class P?

We say that a decision problem belongs to the class P if there is an algorithm \( A \) and a number \( s \) such that for every instance \( I \) of the problem the algorithm \( A \) will provide a solution in time \( O(B) \), where \( B \) is the number of bits in the input string that represents \( I \).

To put it more briefly, P is the set of easy decision problems.

Examples of problems in P are most of the ones that we have already met in this book: Are these two integers relatively prime? Is this integer divisible by two? Is this graph 2-colorable? Is there a flow of value greater than \( K \) in this network? Can this graph be disconnected by the removal of \( K \) or fewer edges? Is there a matching of more than \( K \) edges in this bipartite graph? For each of these problems, there is a fast (polynomial time) algorithm.

## What is the class NP?

The class NP is a little more subtle. A decision problem \( Q \) belongs to NP if there is an algorithm \( A \) that does the following:

1. Associated with each word of the language \( Q \) (i.e., with each instance for which the answer is 'Yes') there is a certificate \( C(I) \) such that when the pair \( (I, C(I)) \) are input to algorithm \( A \), it recognizes that \( I \) belongs to the language \( Q \).
2. If there is some word that does not belong to the language \( Q \) then there is no choice of certificate \( C(I) \) that will cause \( A \) to recognize \( I \) as a member of \( Q \).
3. Algorithm \( A \) operates in polynomial time.

To put this one more briefly, NP is the class of decision problems for which it is easy to check the correctness of a claimed answer, with the aid of a little extra information. So we aren't asking for a way to find a solution, but only to verify that an alleged solution really is correct.

Here is an analogy that may help to clarify the distinction between the classes P and NP. We have all had the experience of reading through a tiny ingenious and difficult proof of some mathematical theorem, and wondering how the person who found the proof in the first place ever did it. Our task, as a reader, was only to verify the proof, and that is a much easier job than the mathematician who invented the proof had. To pursue the analogy a bit farther, some proofs are extremely time consuming even to check (see the proof of the Four-Color Theorem!), and similarly, some computational problems are not even known to belong to NP, let alone to P.

In P are the problems where it's easy to find a solution, and in NP are the problems where it's easy to check a solution that may have been very tedious to find.

Here's another example. Consider the graph coloring problem to be the decision problem Q. Certainly this problem is not known to be in P. It is, however, in NP, and here is an algorithm, and a method of constructing certificates that proves it.

Suppose \( G \) is some graph that is K-colorable. The certificate of \( G \) might be a list of the colors that get assigned to each vertex to ensure proper \( K \)-coloring of the vertices of \( G \). Where do we find that list, you ask? Well, we've said it was easy to construct a certificate. If you actually want to find one then you will have to solve a hard problem. But we're really only talking about checking the correctness of an alleged answer. To check that a certain graph \( G \) really is \( K \)-colorable we can be convinced if you will show us the color of each vertex in a proper \( K \)-coloring.

If you do provide that certificate, then our checking algorithm \( A \) is very simple. It checks first that every vertex has a color and only one color. It then checks that no more than \( K \) colors have been used altogether.
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Context: It finally shows that for each edge \( e \in G \) it is true that the two endpoints of \( e \) have different colors. Hence the graph coloring problem belongs to NP.

The traveling salesman problem would provide a certificate that contains a tour, whose total length is \( K \), of all of the cities. The checking algorithm \( A \) would then verify that the tour really does visit all of the cities and really does have total length \( \leq K \).

The traveling salesman problem, therefore, also belongs to NP.

"Well," you might reply, "if we’re allowed to look at the answers, how could a problem fail to belong to NP?"

Try this decision problem: an instance of the problem consists of a set of cities in the plane and a positive number \( K \). The question is "Is it true that there is not a tour of all of these cities whose total length is less than \( K \)?" Clearly this is a kind of a negation of the traveling salesman problem. Does it belong to NP? If so, there must be an algorithm \( A \) and a way of making a certificate \( C \) for each instance \( I \) that we can quickly verify that no such tour exists of the given cities. Any suggestions for the certificate? The algorithm? No one else knows how to do this either.

It is not known if this negation of the traveling salesman problem belongs to NP. Are there problems that do belong to NP but for which it isn't immediately obvious that this is so? Yes. In fact that's one of the main reasons that we studied the algorithm of Pratt, in section 4.10. Pratt's algorithm is exactly a method of producing a certificate with the aid of which we can quickly check whether a given integer is prime. The decision problem "Given \( n \), is it prime?" is thereby revealed to belong to NP, although that fact wasn't obvious at a glance.

It is very clear that \( P = NP \). Indeed if \( Q \in P \) is some decision problem then we can verify membership in the language \( Q \) with the empty certificate. That is, we don't even need a certificate in order to do a quick calculation that checks membership in the language because the problem itself can be quickly solved.

It seems natural to suppose that NP is larger than P. That is, one might presume that there are problems whose solutions can be quickly checked with the aid of a certificate even though they can’t be quickly found in the first place.

No example of such a problem has ever been produced (and proved), nor has it been proved that no such problem exists. The question of whether or not NP = P is the one that we talked earlier as being perhaps the most important open question in the subject area today.

It is fairly obvious that the class P is called the class P: \( P \) is the first letter of "Polynomial Time". But what does "NP" stand for? Stay tuned. The answer will appear in section 5.2.

## What is reducibility?

Suppose that we want to solve a system of 100 simultaneous linear equations in 100 unknowns, of the form \( Ax = b \). We run down to the local software emporium and quickly purchase a program for $49.95 that solves such systems. When we get home and read the fine print on the label we discover, to our chagrin, that the system works only on systems where the matrix \( A \) is symmetric, and the coefficient matrix in the system that we want to solve is, of course, not symmetric.

One possible response to this predicament would be to look for the solution to the system \( A^Tx = A^b \), in which the coefficient matrix \( A^T A \) is now symmetric.

What we should have done would be to have reduced the problem that we really are interested in to an instance of a problem for which we have an algorithm.

More generally, let \( Q \) and \( Q' \) be two decision problems. We will say that \( Q \) is quickly reducible to \( Q' \) whenever we are given an instance \( I \) of the problem \( Q \) we can convert it, with only a polynomial amount of labor, into an instance \( I' \) of \( Q' \) in such a way that \( I' \) and both have the same answer ("Yes" or "No"). 

If we buy a program to solve \( Q \), then we can use it to solve \( Q' \), with just a small amount of extra work.

## What is NP-completeness?

How would you like to buy one program, for $49.95, that can solve 500 different kinds of problems? That’s what NP-completeness is about.

To state it a little more carefully, a decision problem is NP-complete if it belongs to NP and every problem in NP is quickly reducible to it.
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## Exercises for section 5.1

1. Prove that the following decision problem belongs to P: Given integers \( K \) and \( a_1, \ldots, a_n \). Is the median of the \( a_i \)'s smaller than \( K \)?
2. Prove that the following decision problem is in NP: Given an \( n \times n \) matrix \( A \) of integer entries, is \( \det A = 0 \)?
3. For which of the following problems can you prove membership in P?
   - (a) Given a graph \( G \). Does \( G \) contain a circuit of length 4?
   - (b) Given a graph \( G \). Is \( G \) bipartite?
   - (c) Given integers. Is there a subset of them whose sum is an even number?
   - (d) Given \( n \) integers. Is there a subset of them whose sum is divisible by 3?
   - (e) Given a graph \( G \). Does \( G \) contain an Euler circuit?
4. For which of the following problems can you prove membership in NP?
   - (a) Given a set of integers and another integer \( K \). Is there a subset of the given integers whose sum is \( K \)?
   - (b) Given a graph \( G \) and an integer \( K \). Does \( G \) contain a path of length \( \geq K \)?
   - (c) Given a set of \( K \) integers. Is it true that not all of them are prime?
   - (d) Given a set of \( K \) integers. Is it true that all of them are prime?

## 5.2 Turing Machines

A Turing machine consists of:

- A doubly infinite tape, that is marked off into squares that are numbered as shown in Fig. 5.2.1 below. Each square can contain a single character from the character set that the machine recognizes. For simplicity, we can assume that the character set consists of just three symbols: '0', '1', and ' ' (blank).
- A tape head that is capable of either reading a single character from a square on the tape or writing a single character on a square, or moving its position relative to the tape by an increment of one square in either direction.
- A finite list of states such that at every instant the machine is in exactly one of those states. The possible states of the machine are, first of all, the regular states \( q_1, \ldots, q_n \), and second, three special states:
  - \( q_0 \): the initial state
  - \( q_y \): the final state in a problem to which the answer is ‘Yes’
  - \( q_n \): the final state in a problem to which the answer is ‘No’
- A program (or program module, if we think of it as a pluggable component) that directs the machine through the steps of a particular task.

```
...
...  ---  ---  ---  -2  ─→  0  1  2  3  ...
...
```

Fig. 5.2.1: A Turing machine tape

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Context: Now let's try to write a particular program module `gonetto`. Consider the following problem: given an input string \( x \), consisting of 0s and 1s, of length \( B \). Find out if it is true that the string contains an odd number of 1s.

We will write a program that will scan the input string from left to right, and at each moment the machine will be in state 0 if it has so far scanned an even number of 1s, in state 1 otherwise. In Fig. 5.2.2 we show a program that will get the job done.

| state | symbol | newstate | newsymbol | increment |
|-------|--------|----------|-----------|-----------|
| 0     | 0      | 0        | 0         | +1        |
| 0     | 1      | 1        | 1         | +1        |
| 0     | blank  | \( q_v \) | blank     | -1        |
| 1     | 0      | 1        | 0         | +1        |
| 1     | 1      | 0        | 1         | +1        |
| 1     | blank  | \( q_v \) | blank     | -1        |

**Fig. 5.2.2:** A Turing machine program for bit parity

**Exercise.** Program the above as procedure `gonetto`, run it for some input string, and print out the state of the machine, the contents of the tape, and the position of the tape head after each step of the computation.

In the next section we are going to use the Turing machine concept to prove Cook's theorem, which is the assertion that a certain problem is NP-complete. Right now let’s review some of the ideas that have already been introduced from the point of view of Turing machines.

We might immediately notice that some terms were just a little bit fuzzy before are now much more sharply in focus. Take the notion of polynomial time, for example. To make that idea precise one needs a careful definition of what 'the length of the input bit string' means, and what one means by the number of ‘steps’ in a computation.

But on a Turing machine both of these ideas come through with crystal clarity. The input bit string \( x \) is what we write on the tape to get things started, and its length is the number of tape squares it occupies. A ‘step’ in a Turing machine calculation is obviously a single call to the program module. A Turing machine calculation was done in ‘time \( P(B) \)’ if the input string occupied \( B \) tape squares and the calculation took \( P(B) \) steps.

Another word that we have been using without real precision is ‘algorithm’. We all understand informally what an algorithm is. But now we understand formally how. An algorithm for a problem is a program module for a Turing machine that will cause the machine to halt after finitely many steps in state ‘Y’ for every instance whose answer is ‘Yes’, and after finitely many steps in state ‘N’ for every instance whose answer is ‘No’.

Now let’s see how the idea of a Turing machine can clarify the description of the class NP. This is the class of problems for which the decisions can be made quickly if the input strings are accompanied by suitable certificates.

By a certificate, we mean a finite string of Turing machine tape, consisting of 0 or more squares, each of which contains a symbol from the character set of the machine. A certificate can be loaded into a Turing machine as follows. If the certificate contains \( m > 0 \) tape squares, then replace the segment from square number \( -m \) to square number \( -1 \) of the tape. We then write a verifying program for the program module in which the program verifies that the string \( x \) is indeed a word in the language of the machine, and in the course of the verification the program is quite free to examine the certificate as well as the problem instance.

A Turing machine that is being used as a verifying computer is called a nondeterministic machine. The hardware is the same, but the manner of input and the question that is being asked are different from the
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Context: # Chapter 5: NP-completeness

The class NP (Nondeterministic Polynomial) consists of those decision problems for which there exists a fast (polynomial time) algorithm that will verify, given a problem instance string \( s \) and a suitable certificate \( C \), that \( s \) belongs to the language recognized by the machine, and for which, if \( s \) does not belong to the language, no certificate would cause an accepting computation to ensue.

## 5.3 Cook's Theorem

The NP-complete problems are the hardest problems in NP, in the sense that if \( Q' \) is any decision problem in NP and \( Q \) is NP-complete problem, then every instance of \( Q' \) is polynomially reducible to an instance of \( Q \). As we have already remarked, the surprising thing is that there is an NP-complete problem at all, since it is not immediately clear why any single problem should hold the key to the polynomial time solvability of every problem in the class NP. But there is one. As soon as we see why there is one, then we'll be able to see more easily why there are hundreds of them, including many computational questions about discrete structures such as graphs, networks and games and about optimization problems, about algebraic structures, formal logic, and so forth.

### Here is the satisfiability problem, the first problem that was proved to be NP-complete, by Stephen Cook in 1971.

We begin with a list of (Boolean) variables \( x_1, \ldots, x_n \). A literal is either one of the variables \( x_i \) or the negation of one of the variables, as \( \neg x_i \). There are 2n possible literals.

A clause is a set of literals.

The rules of the game are these. We assign the value ‘True’ (T) or ‘False’ (F), to each one of the variables. Having done that, each one of the literals inherits a truth value; namely, a literal \( x_i \) has the same truth or falsity as the corresponding variable \( x_i \), and a literal \( \neg x_i \) has the opposite truth value from that of the variable \( x_i \).

Finally each of the clauses also inherits a truth value from this process, and it is determined as follows. A clause has the value ‘True’ if and only if at least one of the literals in that clause has the value ‘T’; and otherwise it has the value ‘F’.

Hence starting with an assignment of truth values to the variables, some true and some false, we end up with a determination of the truth values of each of the clauses, some true and some false.

#### Definition. 

A set of clauses is satisfiable if there exists an assignment of truth values to the variables that makes all the clauses true.

Think of the word ‘or’ as being between each of the literals in a clause, and the word ‘and’ as being between the clauses.

### The satisfiability problem (SAT). 

Given a set of clauses. Does there exist a set of truth values (T or F), one for each variable, such that every clause contains at least one literal whose value is T (i.e., such that every clause is satisfied)?

#### Example:

Consider the set \( x_1, x_2, x_3 \) of variables. From these we might manufacture the following list of four clauses:

- \( \{x_1, x_2\} \)
- \( \{x_1, \neg x_3\} \)
- \( \{\neg x_2, x_3\} \)
- \( \{x_1, x_3\} \)

If we choose the truth values (T, T, F) for the variables, respectively, then the four clauses would achieve the truth values (T, T, F), and so this would not be a satisfying truth assignment for the set of clauses. There are only eight possible ways to assign truth values to three variables, and after a little more experimentation we might find out that these clauses would in fact be satisfied if we were to make the assignments (T, T, T) (how can we recognize a set of clauses that is satisfied by assigning to every variable the value ‘T’?). 

The example already leaves one with the feeling that SAT might be a tough computational problem, because there are \( 2^n \) possible sets of truth values that we might have to explore if we were to do an exhaustive search.

It is quite clear, however, that this problem belongs to NP. Indeed, it is a decision problem. Furthermore we can easily assign a certificate to every set of clauses for which the answer to SAT is ‘Yes, the clauses’.

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Context: # At step P(n) the machine is in state qγ.

For each step \( i \) of the computation:

\[
\{Q_{1}, Q_{2}, \ldots, Q_{k}\}
\]

Since I assume \( O(P(n)) \) values, these are \( O(P(n)) \) clauses.

## At each step, the machine is not in more than one state

Therefore, for each step \( i \), and each pair \( j, j' \) of distinct states, the clause 

\[
\{Q_{i}, Q_{j}\}
\]

must be true. These are \( O(P(n)) \) additional clauses to add to the list, but still more are needed.

## At each step, each tape square contains exactly one symbol from the alphabet of the machine.

This leads to two lists of clauses which require, first, that there is at least one symbol in each square at each step, and second, that there are not two symbols in each square at each step. The clauses that do this are 

\[
\{S_{1}, S_{2}, \ldots, S_{A}\}
\]

where \( A \) is the number of letters in the machine's alphabet, and 

\[
\{S_{i,j}, S_{j,k}\}
\]

for each step \( i \), square \( j \), and pair \( k', k' \) of distinct symbols in the alphabet of the machine.

The reader will by now have gotten the idea of how to construct the clauses, so for the next three categories we will simply list the functions that must be performed by the corresponding lists of clauses, and leave the construction of the clauses as an exercise.

## At each step, the tape head is positioned over a single square.

Initially the machine is in state 0, the head is over square 1, the input string \( z \) is in squares 1 to n, and \( C(z) \) (the input certificate of \( z \)) is in squares 0, -1, \( \ldots \), -P(n).

## At step P(n) the machine is in state qγ.

The last set of restrictions is a little trickier:

At each step the machine moves to its next configuration (state, symbol, head position) in accordance with the application of its program module to its previous (state, symbol).

To find the clauses that will do this job, consider first the following condition: the symbol in square j of the tape cannot change during step \( i \) of the computation if the tape head isn't positioned there at that moment. This translates into the collection 

\[
\{T_{j}, S_{j}, S_{i,j,k}\}
\]

of clauses, one for each triple \( (i, j, k) = (state, square, symbol) \). These clauses express the condition in the following way: either (at time \( t \)) the tape head is positioned over square \( j \) (i.e., is true) or else the head is not positioned there, in which case either symbol \( k \) is not in the \( j \)-th square before the step or symbol \( k \) is still in the \( j \)-th square after the step is executed.

It remains to express the fact that the transitions from one configuration of the machine to the next are the direct results of the operation of the program module. The three sets of clauses that do this are 

\[
\{F_{i}, Q_{k}, S_{j,i,t+1} \land N\}
\]
\[
\{T_{j}, Q_{k}, S_{j,i,t+1} \land C_{i} \}
\]
\[
\{T_{j}, Q_{k}, S_{j,i,S_{1}} \land S_{j,i,t}\}
\]
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Context: # Chapter 5: NP-completeness

In Fig. 5.4.1 we show the graph \( G \) of 11 vertices that corresponds to the following instance of 3SAT:

- \( C_1 = \{ x_i, \overline{x_i} \} \)
- \( C_2 = \{ x_1, x_2, \overline{x_2} \} \)

![The graph for a 3SAT problem](path_to_image)

Now we claim that this graph is \( n + 1 \) colorable if and only if the clauses are satisfiable.

Clearly, \( G \) cannot be colored in fewer than \( n \) colors, because the \( n \) vertices \( x_1, \ldots, x_n \) are all connected to each other and therefore they alone already require different colors for a proper coloration. Suppose that \( x_i \) is assigned color \( i \) (for \( i = 1, \ldots, n \)).

Do we need new colors in order to color the \( x_i \) vertices? Since vertex \( x_i \) is connected to every \( y \) vertex except \( x_i \), if color \( i \) is going to be used on the \( x_i \)'s, it will have to be assigned to one of the \( y_j \), but not both, since they are connected to each other. Hence a new color, color \( n + 1 \), will have to be introduced in order to color the \( x_j \)'s and \( x_i \)'s.

Further, if we are going to color the vertices of \( G \) in only \( n + 1 \) colors, the only way to do it will be to assign color \( n + 1 \) to exactly one member of each pair \( (x_i, \overline{x_i}) \), and color it to the other one, for each \( i = 1, \ldots, n \).

It remains to color the vertices \( C_1, \ldots, C_k \). The graph will be \( n + 1 \) colorable if and only if we can do this without using any new colors. Since each clause contains at most three literals, and \( n > 4 \), every variable \( C_j \) must be adjacent to both \( x_i \) and \( x_j \) for at least one value of \( j \). Therefore, we conclude \( C_k \) must be colored in one of the colors \( 1, \ldots, n \).

Since \( C_1 \) is connected by an edge to every vertex \( x_j \) or \( \overline{x_j} \) that is not in the clause \( C \), it follows that \( C \) cannot be colored in the same color as any \( x_i \) that is not in the clause \( C \).

Hence the color that we assign to \( C_j \) must be the same as the color of some 'True' vertex \( x_i \) that corresponds to a literal that is in clause \( C_j \). Therefore the graph is \( n + 1 \) colorable if and only if there is a 'True' vertex for each \( C_j \), and this means exactly that the clauses are satisfiable.

By means of many, often quite ingenious, transformations of the kind that we have just seen, the list of NP-complete problems has grown rapidly since the first example, and the 21 additional problems found by R. Karp. Hundreds of such problems are now known. Here are a few of the more important ones.

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Context: Maximum clique: We are given a graph \( G \) and an integer \( K \). The question is to determine whether or not there is a set of \( K \) vertices in \( G \), each of which is joined, by an edge of \( G \), to all of the others.  

Edge coloring: Given a graph \( G \) and an integer \( K \), can we color the edges of \( G \) in \( K \) colors, so that whenever two edges meet at a vertex, they will have different colors?  

Let us refer to an edge coloring of this kind as a proper coloring of the edges of \( G \).  

A beautiful theorem of Vizing's deals with this question. If \( \Delta \) denotes the largest degree of any vertex in the given graph, the Vizing's theorem asserts that the edges of \( G \) can be properly colored in either \( \Delta \) or \( \Delta + 1 \) colors. Since it is obvious that at least \( \Delta \) colors will be needed, this means that the edge chromatic number is in doubt by only one unit, for every graph \( G \). Nevertheless, the decision as to whether the correct answer is \( \Delta \) or \( \Delta + 1 \) is NP-complete.  

Hamilton path: In a given graph \( G \), is there a path that visits every vertex of \( G \) exactly once?  

Target sum: Given a finite set of positive integers whose sum is \( S \)? The above list, together with SAT, 3SAT, Travelling Salesman and Graph Coloring, constitutes a modest sampling of the class of these seemingly intractable problems. Of course, it must not be assumed that every problem that "sounds like" an NP-complete problem is necessarily so hard. If for example we ask for an Euler path instead of a Hamilton path (i.e., if we want to traverse edges rather than vertices) the problem would no longer be NP-complete, and in fact it would be in P, thanks to theorem 1.6.1.  

As another example, the fact that one can find the edge connectivity of a given graph in polynomial time (see section 3.8) is rather amazing considering the quite difficult appearance of the problem. One of our motivations for including the network flow algorithms in this book was, indeed, to show how very sophisticated algorithms can sometimes prove that seemingly hard problems are in fact computationally tractable.  

## Exercises for section 5.4  

1. Is the claim that we made and proved above (just after (5.4.2)) identical with the statement that the clause (5.4.1) is satisfiable if and only if the clauses (5.4.2) are simultaneously satisfiable? Discuss.  
2. Is the claim that we made and proved above (just after (5.4.2)) identical with the statement that the Boolean expression (5.4.1) is equal to the product of the Boolean expressions (5.4.2) in the sense that their truth values are identical on every set of inputs? Discuss.  
3. Let it be desired to find out if a given graph \( G \) of \( V \) vertices, can be vertex colored in \( K \) colors. If we transform the problem into an instance of SAT, exactly how many clauses will there be?  

## 5.5 Half a loaf ...  

If we simply want to solve an NP-complete problem, then we are faced with a very long computation. Is there anything that can be done to lighten the load? In a number of cases various kinds of probabilistic and approximate algorithms have been developed, some very ingenious, and these may often be quite serviceable, as we have already seen in the case of primality testing. Here are some of the strategies of "near" solutions that have been developed.  

### Type 1: *Almost surely ...*  

Suppose we have an NP-complete problem that asks if there is a certain kind of substructure embedded inside a given structure. Then we may be able to develop an algorithm with the following properties:  
(a) It always runs in polynomial time  
(b) When it finds a solution then that solution is always a correct one  
(c) It doesn’t always find a solution, but it "almost always" does, in the sense that the ratio of successes to total cases approaches unity as the size of the input grows large.  

An example of such an algorithm is one that will find a Hamilton path in almost all graphs, failing to do so sometimes, but not often, and running always in polynomial time. We will describe such an algorithm below.  

* V. G. Vizing. On an estimate of the chromatic class of a \( p \)-graph (Russian), Diskret. Analiz. 3 (1964), 25-30.

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  - **Target sum:** Identifying a subset whose sum equals S.
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Context: ```
# 5.6 Backtracking (I): Independent Sets

To speed up the discussion, we will now show the list of all sets S that turn up from start to finish of the algorithm:

- {1}, {13}, {16}, {2}, {24}, {245}, {25}, {3},  
- {34}, {345}, {35}, {4}, {45}, {5}, {6}

A convenient way to represent the search process is by means of the backtrack search tree T. This is a tree whose vertices are arranged on levels \(L = 0, 1, 2, \ldots\) for a graph of \(n\) vertices. Each vertex of T corresponds to an independent set of vertices in G. Two vertices of T, corresponding to independent sets \(S', S''\) of vertices of G, are joined by an edge in T if \(S' \subset S''\) and \(S''\) consists of a single element: the highest-numbered vertex in \(S''\). On level \(L\) we find a vertex S of T for every independent set of exactly L vertices of G. Level 0 consists of a single root vertex, corresponding to the empty set of vertices of G.

The complete backtrack search tree for the problem of finding a maximum independent set in the graph G of Fig. 5.6.1 is shown in Fig. 5.6.2 below.

## Fig. 5.6.2: The backtrack search tree

The backtrack algorithm amounts just to visiting every vertex of the search tree T, without actually having to write down the tree explicitly, in advance.

Observe that the list of sets S above, or equivalently, the list of nodes of the tree T, consists of exactly every independent set in the graph G. A reasonable measure of the complexity of the searching job, therefore, is the number of independent sets that G has. In the example above, the graph G had 19 independent sets of vertices, including the empty set.

The question of the complexity of backtrack search is therefore the same as the question of determining the number of independent sets of the graph G.

Some graphs have an enormous number of independent sets. The graph \(T_n\), of n vertices and no edges whatever has \(2^n\) independent sets of vertices. The backtrack tree will have \(2^n\) nodes, and the search will be a long one indeed.

The complete graph \(K_n\) of n vertices and every possible edge, \(n(n-1)/2\), has just \(n+1\) independent sets of vertices.

Any other graph G of n vertices will have a number of independent sets that lies between these two extremes of \(2^n\) and \(2^{n}\). Sometimes backtracking will take an exponentially long time, and sometimes it will be fairly quick. Now the question is, on the average how fast is the backtrack method for this problem?

What we are asking for is the average number of independent sets that a graph G of \(n\) vertices has. But that is the sum, over all vertex subsets \(S \subseteq \{1, \ldots, n\}\), of the probability that S is an independent set. If S has k vertices, then the probability that S is independent is the probability that, among \(k(k - 1)/2\) possible edges that might join a pair of vertices in S, exactly zero of these edges actually live in the random graph G. Since each of these \(\binom{k}{2}\) edges has a probability \(1/2\) of appearing in G, the probability that none of them appear is \(2^{-k(k-1)/2}\). Hence the average number of independent sets in a graph of n vertices is:

\[ I_n = \sum_{k=0}^{n} \binom{n}{k} 2^{-k(k-1)/2}. \quad (5.6.1) \]
```

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Context: # 5.7 Backtracking (II): Graph Coloring

## Lemma 5.7.1

Let \( s_1, \ldots, s_K \) be nonnegative numbers whose sum is \( L \). Then the sum of their squares is at least \( \frac{L^2}{K} \).

**Proof:** We have

\[
0 \leq \sum_{i=1}^K s_i^2 = \sum_{i=1}^K \left( s_i - \frac{L}{K} \right)^2 + \frac{L^2}{K}
\]

\[
= \sum_{i=1}^K s_i^2 - \frac{L^2}{K^2} + \frac{L^2}{K}
\]

\[
= \sum_{i=1}^K s_i^2 - \frac{L^2}{K^2} + \frac{L^2}{K}
\]

\[
\Rightarrow \sum_{i=1}^K s_i^2 \geq \frac{L^2}{K}.
\]

The next lemma deals with a kind of inside-out chromatic polynomial question. Instead of asking “How many proper colorings can a given graph have?”, we ask “How many graphs can have a given proper coloring?”

## Lemma 5.7.2

Let \( C \) be one of the \( K^L \) possible ways to color in \( K \) colors a set of \( L \) abstract vertices \( 1, 2, \ldots, L \). Then the number of graphs \( G \) whose vertex set is that set of \( L \) colored vertices and for which \( C \) is a proper coloring of \( G \) is at most \( 2^{L(L - 1)/2} \).

**Proof:** In the coloring \( C \), suppose \( s_1 \) vertices get color 1, \( \ldots, s_K \) get color \( K \), where, of course, \( s_1 + \ldots + s_K = L \). If a graph \( G \) is to admit \( C \) as a proper vertex coloring then its edges can be drawn only between vertices of different colors. The number of edges that \( G \) might have is therefore

\[
s_1 s_2 + s_1 s_3 + \ldots + s_K s_{K-1} + \ldots + s_{K-1} s_K
\]

for which we have the following estimate:

\[
\sum_{1 \leq j < k \leq K} s_j s_k \leq \frac{1}{2} \sum_{j=1}^K s_j^2
\]

\[
= \frac{1}{2} \left( \sum_{j=1}^K s_j^2 - \sum_{j=1}^K s_j^2 \right) = \frac{1}{2} \sum_{j=1}^K s_j^2
\]

\[
\Rightarrow \sum_{1 \leq j < k \leq K} s_j s_k \leq \frac{L^2}{2} - \frac{1}{2} \sum_{j=1}^K s_j^2 \quad \text{(by lemma 5.7.1)}
\]

The number of possible graphs \( G \) is therefore at most \( 2^{(L(L - 1)/2)} \). 

## Lemma 5.7.3

The total number of proper colorings in \( K \) colors of all graphs of \( L \) vertices is at most 

\[
K \cdot L^{2^{(L-1)/K}}.
\]

**Proof:** We are counting the pairs \( (G, C) \), where the graph \( G \) has \( L \) vertices and \( C \) is a proper coloring of \( G \). If we keep \( C \) fixed and sum on \( G \), then by lemma 5.7.2 the sum is at most \( 2^{(L-1)/K} \). Since there are \( K \) such \( C \), the proof is finished.

Now let's think about a backtrack search for a \( K \)-coloring of a graph. Begin by using color 1 on vertex 1. Then use color 2 on vertex 2 unless \( (1, 2) \) is an edge, in which case use color 2. As the coloring progresses through vertices \( 1, 2, \ldots, L \), we color each new vertex with the lowest available color number that does not cause a conflict with some vertex that has previously been colored.

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Context: # Chapter 5: NP-completeness

## Exercises for section 5.8

1. Consider the following algorithm:

   **procedure** `mst2(x: array of n points in the plane);`
   *allegedly finds a tree of minimum total length that visits every one of the given points*

   if n = 1  
   then T := {x₁}  
   else  
   T := mst2(n - 1, x₁, ..., xₙ);  
   let u be the vertex of T that is nearest to xₙ;  
   mst2 := T plus vertex xₙ plus edge (xₙ, u)  
   end.  

Is this algorithm a correct recursive formulation of the minimum spanning tree greedy algorithm? If so, then prove it, and if not then give an example of a set of points where `mst2` gets the wrong answer.

---

## Bibliography

Before we list some books and journal articles, it should be mentioned that research in the area of NP-completeness is moving rapidly, and the state of the art is changing all the time. Readers who would like updates on the subject are referred to a series of articles that have appeared in issues of the Journal of Algorithms in recent years. These are called *NP-completeness: An ongoing guide*. They are written by David S. Johnson, and each of them is a thorough survey of recent progress in one particular area of NP-completeness research. They are written as updates of the first reference below.

Journals that contain a good deal of research on the areas of this chapter include the Journal of Algorithms, the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, the SIAM Journal of Computing, Information Processing Letters, and SIAM Journal of Discrete Mathematics.

The most complete reference on NP-completeness is

- M. Garey and D. S. Johnson, *Computers and Intractability: A guide to the theory of NP-completeness*, W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, 1979.

The above is highly recommended. It is readable, careful and complete.

The earliest ideas on the computational intractability of certain problems go back to Alan Turing. On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem, Proc. London Math. Soc., Ser. 2, 42 (1936), 230–265.

Cook's theorem, which originated the subject of NP-completeness, is in

- S. A. Cook, *The complexity of theorem proving procedures*, Proc., Third Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing, ACM, New York, 1971, 151–158.

After Cook's work was done, a large number of NP-complete problems were found by

- Richard M. Karp, *Reducibility among combinatorial problems*, in R. E. Miller and J. W. Thatcher, eds., *Complexity of Computer Computations*, Plenum, New York, 1972, 85–103.

The above paper is recommended both for its content and its clarity of presentation. The approximate algorithm for the traveling salesman problem is in

- D. J. B. Rothmaler, R. E. Stearns and P. M. Lewis, *An analysis of several heuristics for the travelling salesman problem*, SIAM J. Comp. 6 (1977), 563–581.

Another approximate algorithm for the Euclidean TSP which guarantees that the solution found is no more than 3/2 as long as the optimum tour, was found by

- N. Christofides, *Worst case analysis of a new heuristic for the travelling salesman problem*, Technical Report, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1976.

The minimum spanning tree algorithm is due to

- R. C. Prim, *Shortest connection networks and some generalizations*, Bell System Tech. J. 36 (1957), 1389–1401.

The probabilistic algorithm for the Hamilton path problem can be found in
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- adjacent 40
- Adleman, L. 149, 164, 165, 176
- Alo, A. V. 103
- Anguita, D. 209-211, 227
- Appel, K. 69
- average complexity 57, 211f.

- backtracking 211f.
- Bender, E. 227
- Bentley, J. L. 54
- Berger, R. 3
- big O 9
- binary system 19
- bin-packing 178
- binomial theorem 37
- bipartite graph 44, 182
- binomial coefficients 35
- growth of 33
- blocking flow 124
- Burnside's lemma 46

- cardinality 35
- canonical factorization 138
- capacity of a cut 115
- Carmichael numbers 155
- certificate 171, 182, 193
- Chenskasy, B. V. 135
- Chinese remainder theorem 154
- chromatic number 44
- chromatic polynomial 73
- Cohen, H. 176
- coloring graphs 43
- complement of a graph 44
- complexity 1
  - worst-case 4
- connected 41
- Cook, S. 187, 194-201, 226
- Cook's theorem 195f.
- Cooley, J. W. 103
- Coppersmith, D. 99
- cryptography 165
- Cristofides, N. 224, 227
- cut in a network 115
  - capacity of 115
- cycle 61
- cyclic group 152

- decimal system 19
- decision problem 181
- degree of a vertex 40
- deterministic 193
- Diffie, W. 176
- digitalis 105
- Divine, D. 103, 134
- divide 137
- Dixon, J. D. 170, 175, 177
- domino problem 3
- ‘easy’ computation 1
- edge coloring 206
- edge connectivity 132
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# Index

- **Edmonds, J.** 107, 134, 224
- **Esfahani, K.** 103
- **Euclidean algorithm** 140, 168
  - complexity 142
  - extended 144f
- **Euler totient function** 138, 157
- **Eulerian circuit** 41
- **Even, S.** 13
- **Exponential growth** 13
- **Factor base** 169
- **Fermat's theorem** 152, 159
- **FFT**, complexity of 93
  - applications of 95 ff
- **Fibonacci numbers** 30, 76, 144
- **Flow** 106
  - value of 106
  - augmentation 109
  - blocking 124
- **Flow augmenting path** 109
- **Ford-Fulkerson algorithm** 108 ff
- **Ford, L.** 107 f
- **Four-color theorem** 68
- **Fourier transform** 83 ff
  - discrete 83
  - inverse 96
- **Fulkerson, D. E.** 107 f
- **Gall, J.** 135
- **Gardner, M.** 2
- **Garey, M.** 188
- **Geometric series** 23
- **Gomory, R. E.** 136
- **Graphs** 40 ff
  - coloring of 43, 183, 216 ff
  - connected 41
  - complement of 44
  - complete 44
  - empty 44
  - bipartite 44
  - planar 70
- **Greatest common divisor** 138
- **Group of units** 151

- **Haken, W.** 69
- **Hamiltonian circuit** 41, 206, 208 ff
- **Hardy, G. H.** 175
- **Height of network** 125
- **Hellman, M. E.** 176
- **Hexadecimal system** 21
- **Hierarchy of growth** 11
- **Hoare, C. A. R.** 51
- **Hopcroft, J.** 70, 103
- **Hu, T. C.** 136
- **Independent set** 61, 179, 211 ff
- **Intractable** 5
- **Johnson, D. S.** 188, 225, 226
- **Karp, R.** 107, 134, 206, 226
- **Kazanov, A.** 134
- **Knuth, D. E.** 102
- **Koenig, H.** 103
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# Index

- **k-subset** 35  
- **language** 132  
- **Lawler, E.** 99  
- **layered network** 120f  
- **Lenstra, H. W., Jr.** 176  
- **Levyque, W. J.** 175  
- **Lewis, P. A. W.** 103  
- **Lewis, P. M.** 227  
- **L'Hôpital's rule** 12  
- **Little, O.** 54  

## Network
- **network** 105  
  - **flow** 105f  
  - **dense** 107  
  - **layered** 108, 120f  
    - **height** 125  
- **Nijenhuis, A.** 60  
- **nondeterministic** 193  
- **NP** 182  
- **NP-complete** 61, 180  
- **NP-completeness** 178f  

- **octal system** 21  
- **optimization problem** 181  
- **orders of magnitude** 6f  

## P
- **P** 12  
- **Palmer, E. M.** 228  
- **Pav, V.** 103  
- **Pascal’s triangle** 36  
- **path** 41  
- **predicate function** 87  
- **polynomial time** 2, 179, 185  
- **polynomials, multiplication of** 96  
- **Ponomarev, C.** 143, 164, 176  
- **positional number systems** 19f  
- **Pramodh-Kumar, M.** 108f, 135  
- **Pratt, V.** 171, 172  
- **Prim, R. C.** 227  
- **primality testing** 148f, 186  
  - **routing** 179  
- **prime number** 2  
- **primitive root** 152  
- **pseudorandomity test** 149, 156ff  
  - **strong** 158  
- **public key encryption** 150, 165  

- **Quicksort** 50f  

- **Rabin, M. O.** 149, 162, 175  
- **Ralston, A.** 103  
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- k-subset 35  
- language 132  
- Lawler, E. 99  
- layered network 120ff  
- Lenstra, H. W., Jr. 176  
- LeVaque, W. J. 175  
- Lewis, P. A. W. 103  
- Lewis, P. M. 227  
- L'Hospital's rule 12  
- little oh 8  
- Loustau, N. 54  

## network 105
- flow 105ff  
- dense 107  
- — layered 108, 120ff  
- height of 125  
- Nijenhuis, A. 60  
- nondeterministic 193  
- NP 182  
- NP-complete 61, 180  
- NP-completeness 178ff  

## octal system 21  
- optimization problem 181  
- orders of magnitude 6ff  

## P 12  
- Palmer, E. M. 228  
- Paul, V. 103  
- Pascal's triangle 36  
- path 41  
- predicate function 87  
- polynomial time 2, 179, 185  
- polynomials, multiplication of 96  
- Pomerance, C. 143, 164, 176  
- positional number systems 19ff  
- Pramod-Kumar, M. 108f, 135  
- Pratt, V. 171, 172  
- Prim, R. C. 227  
- primality testing 148ff, 186  
- — routing 170  
- prime number 152  
- primitive root 152  
- pseudorandomity test 149, 156ff  
- — strong 158  
- public key encryption 150, 165  

- Quicksort 50ff  

- Rabin, M. O. 149, 162, 175  
- Ralston, A. 103
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# Index

- k-subset 35
- language 132
- Lawler, E. 99
- layered network 120f
- Lenstra, H. W., Jr. 176
- LeVeque, W. J. 175
- Lewis, P. A. W. 103
- Lewis, P. M. 227
- L'Hospital's rule 12
- little oh 8
- Lounesto, N. 54

## network 105
- flow 105f
- dense 107
- layerd 108, 120ff
- height of 125
- Nijenhuis, A. 60
- nondeterministic 193
- NP 182
- NP-complete 61, 180
- NP-completeness 178f

- octal system 21
- optimization problem 181
- orders of magnitude 6f

## P 12
- Palmer, E. M. 228
- Paul, V. 103
- Pascal's triangle 36
- path 41
- predicate function 87
- polynomial time 2, 179, 185
- polynomials multiplication of 96
- Pomerance, C. 143, 164, 176
- positional number systems 19f
- Pramod-Kumar, M. 108f, 135
- Pratt, V. 171, 172
- Prim, R. C. 227
- primality testing 148f, 186
- proving 179
- prime number 152
- primitive root 152
- pseudoprimality test 149, 156ff
- strong 158
- public key encryption 150, 165

- Quicksort 50f

- Rabin, M. O. 149, 162, 175
- Ralston, A. 103
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# Index

- **recurrence relations** 26/f
- **recurrent inequality** 31
- **recursive algorithms** 48/f
- **reducibility** 135
- **relatively prime** 138
- **ring** 21, 151
- **Rivet, R.** 165, 176
- **roots of unity** 86
- **Rosenkrantz, D.** 227
- **RSA system** 165, 168
- **Rumely, R.** 149, 164, 176
- **Runge, C.** 103

## SAT
- **satisfiability** 187, 195
- **second vertex** 111
- **Schöning, A.** 103
- **Selinger, J.** 176
- **Shamir, A.** 165, 176
- **slowart** 50
- **Solow, R.** 149, 162, 176
- **splitter** 52
- **Stearns, R. E.** 227
- **Stirling's formula** 16, 216
- **Strassen, V.** 73, 103, 149, 162, 176
- **synthetic division** 86

## 3SAT
- **target sum** 206
- **Tajima, R. E.** 66, 70, 103, 135
- **Θ (Theta of)** 10
- **tiling** 2
- **tractable** 5
- **travelling salesman problem** 178, 184, 221
- **tree** 45
- **Tropowski, A.** 66, 103
- **TSP** 178, 201
- **Tukey, J. W.** 103
- **Turing, A.** 226
- **Turing machine** 187/f

- **Ullman, J. D.** 103
- **usable edge** 111
- **Valiant, L.** 208-11, 227
- **vertices** 40
- **Wizig, V.** 206
- **Wagstaff, S.** 176
- **Welch, P. D.** 103
- **Wills, H. G.** 103, 227, 228
- **Winograd, S.** 99
- **worst-case** 4, 180
- **Wright, E. M.** 175
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## Allen Hatcher

Copyright © 2001 by Allen Hatcher

Paper or electronic copies for noncommercial use may be made freely without explicit permission from the author.  
All other rights reserved.

Image Analysis: 

### Analysis of Visual Content

#### 1. Localization and Attribution
- **Image 1**:
  - Position: This is the only image on the page, located centrally.

#### 4. Text Analysis
- **Image 1**:
  - **Detected Text**:
    - Title: "Algebraic Topology".
    - Author: "Allen Hatcher".
    - Copyright Notice: 
      - "Copyright © 2001 by Allen Hatcher".
      - "Paper or electronic copies for noncommercial use may be made freely without explicit permission from the author. All other rights reserved."
  - **Content Significance**: 
    - The title indicates that the document focuses on "Algebraic Topology," a branch of mathematics.
    - The author’s name, "Allen Hatcher," identifies the individual responsible for the work.
    - The copyright notice provides information regarding the legal use of the material, specifying that copying for noncommercial purposes is permitted.

#### 6. Product Analysis
- **Image 1**:
  - **Main Features**:
    - **Illustration**: A central geometric design likely indicates a topological or mathematical concept, typical in academic and educational publications.
    - **Materials and Colors**: The illustration uses intersecting loops in blue and red hues, creating an appealing pattern. 
    - **Comparison**: There is only one design element, so internal comparison isn’t applicable here.

#### 8. Color Analysis
- **Image 1**:
  - **Color Composition**:
    - Dominant Colors: Blue and red, used in the central geometric pattern.
    - Impact: The use of blue and red draws attention to the geometric design, which is intricate and visually stimulating.

#### 9. Perspective and Composition
- **Image 1**:
  - **Perspective**: The image is presented from a front-on, flat perspective, typical for book covers.
  - **Composition**:
    - The geometric design is central and symmetrical.
    - The title and author's name are positioned above the design, with the copyright information below.
    - The design and text are framed by a blue border, providing structure and focus.

#### 10. Contextual Significance
- **Image 1**:
  - **Overall Contribution**:
    - The image serves as the cover of a textbook on "Algebraic Topology."
    - The geometric design visually represents mathematical complexity, aligning with the book’s subject.
    - The clean, structured layout and professional design establish the document as an academic publication.

#### 13. Process Flows
- Not Applicable: There are no process flows depicted in the image.

#### 14. Process Descriptions
- Not Applicable: There are no process descriptions in the image.

### Conclusion
This image serves as an academic book cover for "Algebraic Topology" by Allen Hatcher. The design elements, color composition, and structured layout emphasize its educational purpose, visually reflecting the abstract and complex nature of the subject matter.
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Image Analysis: 

Based on the aspects provided, here is a comprehensive examination of the attached visual content:

**1. Localization and Attribution:**
- The image occupies the entirety of the provided space. It can be numbered as Image 1.

**2. Object Detection and Classification:**
- **Image 1:**
  - **Objects Detected:** 
    - A person.
    - A large screen/projector behind the person.
    - A clock on the wall.
    - Three smaller screens or panels below the large screen.
    - A speaker or microphone setup on the podium.
    - A laptop on the podium.
  - **Classification by Category:**
    - Person: Human.
    - Screen/Projector: Electronic device.
    - Clock: Timekeeping device.
    - Screens/Panels: Electronic display devices.
    - Speaker/Microphone: Audio equipment.
    - Laptop: Computing device.

**3. Scene and Activity Analysis:**
- **Image 1:**
  - **Scene Description:**
    - The scene takes place in what appears to be a conference room or lecture hall.
    - The person is standing at a podium, presumably giving a presentation.
  - **Activities Taking Place:**
    - The main actor, a person, is engaged in speaking or presenting information to an audience.
    - The person appears to be using a laptop, possibly to control a presentation on the large screen behind them.

**4. Text Analysis:**
- **Image 1:**
  - There is no visible text in the image based on the provided resolution and image quality.

**8. Color Analysis:**
- **Image 1:**
  - **Dominant Colors:**
    - Predominantly neutral colors like white and gray for the walls and background.
    - The podium and the person's attire include darker shades like black and gray.
    - The large screen in the background is turned off, showing a dark color.
  - **Impact on Perception:**
    - The use of neutral and dark colors keeps the focus on the person presenting.

**9. Perspective and Composition:**
- **Image 1:**
  - **Perspective:**
    - The image is taken from a viewpoint that is at the audience level, facing toward the presenter.
    - This perspective gives the sense of being part of the audience.
  - **Composition:**
    - The composition places the presenter at the center.
    - The large screen behind the presenter acts as the background, with additional visual elements like a clock and smaller screens filling the side spaces.

**14. Ablaufprozesse (Process Flows):**
- **Image 1:**
  - No specific process flows are depicted directly in the image. 

**15. Prozessbeschreibungen (Process Descriptions):**
- **Image 1:**
  - The main process described here involves a presentation setup, with the presenter utilizing electronic equipment to communicate information.

**16. Typen Bezeichnung (Type Designations):**
- **Image 1:**
  - The types of equipment include Audio-Visual equipment (screen, laptop, microphones) and timekeeping devices (clock).

**17. Trend and Interpretation:**
- **Image 1:**
  - The trend seems to indicate a professional or educational setting where technology is integrated to facilitate presentations and lectures.

**19. Tables:**
- **Image 1:**
  - There are no tables in the image to analyze.

The image provides a focused look at a presentation scene in a formal setting. The arrangement of elements and the color palette underscore the importance of the presenter and the information being shared.
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## Preface 
- Standard Notations ix
- Standard Notations xii

## Chapter 0. Some Underlying Geometric Notions 
1. Homotopy and Homotopy Type 1. Cell Complexes 5  
2. Operations on Spaces 8  
3. Two Criteria for Homotopy Equivalence 10  
4. The Homotopy Extension Property 14  

## Chapter 1. The Fundamental Group 
### 1.1 Basic Constructions 
- Paths and Homotopy 25  
- The Fundamental Group of the Circle 29  
- Induced Homomorphisms 34  

### 1.2 Van Kampen’s Theorem 
- Free Products of Groups 41  
- The van Kampen Theorem 43  
- Applications to Cell Complexes 49  

### 1.3 Covering Spaces 
- Lifting Properties 60  
- The Classification of Covering Spaces 63  
- Deck Transformations and Group Actions 70  

## Additional Topics 
### 1.A Graphs and Free Groups 83  
### 1.B KG(1) Spaces and Graphs of Groups 85
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The additional topics amount to nearly half the book, and they are included here both to make the book more comprehensive and to give the reader who takes the time to dive into them a more substantial sample of the true richness and beauty of the subject.

There is also an Appendix dealing mainly with a number of matters of a point-set topological nature that arise in algebraic topology. Since this is a textbook on algebraic topology, details involving point-set topology are often treated lightly or skipped entirely in the body of the text.

Not included in this book is the important but somewhat more sophisticated topic of spectral sequences. It was very tempting to include something about this marvelous tool here, but spectral sequences are such a big topic that it seemed best to start with them afresh in a new volume. This is tentatively titled *Spectral Sequences in Algebraic Topology* and is referred to herein as [SSAT]. There is also a third book in progress, on vector bundles, characteristic classes, and K-theory, which will be largely independent of [SSAT] and of much of the present book. This is referred to as [VBKT], its provisional title being *Vector Bundles and K-Theory*.

In terms of prerequisites, the present book assumes the reader has some familiarity with the content of the standard undergraduate courses in algebra and point-set topology. In particular, the reader should know about quotient spaces, or identification spaces as they are sometimes called, which are quite important for algebraic topology. Good sources for this concept are the textbooks [Armstrong 1983] and [Jänich 1984] listed in the Bibliography.

A book such as this one, whose aim is to present classical material from a rather classical viewpoint, is not the place to indulge in wild innovation. There is, however, one small novelty in the exposition that may be worth commenting upon, even though one might say that it plays a relatively minor role. This is the use of what we call Δ-complexes, which are a mild generalization of the classical notion of a simplicial complex. The idea is to decompose a space into simplices allowing different faces of a simplex to coincide and dropping the requirement that simplices are uniquely determined by their vertices. For example, if one takes the standard picture of the torus as a square with opposite edges identified and divides the square into two triangles by cutting along a diagonal, then the result is a Δ-complex structure on the torus having 2 triangles, 3 edges, and 1 vertex. By contrast, a simplicial complex structure on the torus must have at least 14 triangles, 21 edges, and 7 vertices. So Δ-complexes provide a significant improvement in efficiency, which is nice from a pedagogical viewpoint since it simplifies calculations in examples. A more fundamental reason for considering Δ-complexes is that they seem to be very natural objects from the viewpoint of algebraic topology. They are the natural domain of definition for simplicial homology, and a number of standard constructions produce Δ-complexes rather than simplicial complexes. Historically, Δ-complexes were first introduced by
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**Z, Q, R, C, H, O** : the integers, rationals, reals, complexes, quaternions, and octonions.

- **Zn** : the integers mod n.
- **Rn** : n-dimensional Euclidean space.
- **Cn** : complex n-space.

In particular, **R^0 = {0} = C^0**, zero-dimensional vector spaces.

- **I = [0, 1]** : the unit interval.
- **Sn** : the unit sphere in **R^(n+1)**, all points of distance 1 from the origin.
- **Dn** : the unit disk or ball in **R^n**, all points of distance ≤ 1 from the origin.
- **∂Dn = Sn-1** : the boundary of the n-disk.
- **en** : an n-cell, homeomorphic to the open n-disk **Dn - ∂Dn**.

In particular, **D^0** and **e^0** consist of a single point since **R^0 = {0}**. But **S^0** consists of two points since it is **∂D^1**.

- **1** : the identity function from a set to itself.
- **|S|** : disjoint union of sets or spaces.
- **×, ∏** : product of sets, groups, or spaces.
- **≅** : isomorphism.

- **A ⊂ B** or **B ⊃ A** : set-theoretic containment, not necessarily proper.
- **A ↪ B** : the inclusion map **A → B** when **A ⊂ B**.
- **A - B** : set-theoretic difference, all points in **A** that are not in **B**.
- **iff** : if and only if.

There are also a few notations used in this book that are not completely standard. The union of a set **X** with a family of sets **Yi**, with **i** ranging over some index set, is usually written simply as **X ∪ Yi** rather than something more elaborate such as **X ∪ (∪i Yi)**. Intersections and other similar operations are treated in the same way.

Definitions of mathematical terms are given within paragraphs of text, rather than displayed separately like theorems. These definitions are indicated by the use of **boldface** type for the more important terms, with italics being used for less important or simpler definitions as well as simple emphasis as in standard written prose. Terms defined using boldface appear in the Index, with the page number where the definition occurs listed first.
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## An Introduction to the  
# Theory of Numbers

### Leo Moser

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**The Trillia Group**  
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An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers  
© 1967 Leo MosER  

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ISBN 1-58901-114-1  
First published: March 1, 2001. This version revised: July 31, 2011.  
The publisher "The Trilla Group" and The Trilla Group logo are trademarks of The Trilla Group.  

This book was prepared by William MosER from a typescript by Leo MosER. We thank Siwan Gunturo, Joseph Lipman, and Mark Hudson for proofreading parts of the manuscript. We intend to correct and update the work as needed. If you notice any mistakes in this work, please send email to Bradley Lucier (lucier@math.purdue.edu) and they will be corrected in a later version.

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# Contents

- Preface .............................................................................. v
- Chapter 1. Compositions and Partitions ............................... 1
- Chapter 2. Arithmetic Functions ......................................... 7
- Chapter 3. Distribution of Primes ...................................... 17
- Chapter 4. Irrational Numbers ............................................ 37
- Chapter 5. Congruences ..................................................... 43
- Chapter 6. Diophantine Equations ...................................... 53
- Chapter 7. Combinatorial Number Theory ........................... 59
- Chapter 8. Geometry of Numbers ....................................... 69
- Classical Unsolved Problems ............................................. 73
- Miscellaneous Problems .................................................... 75
- Unsolved Problems and Conjectures .................................... 83
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These lectures are intended as an introduction to the elementary theory of numbers. I use the word “elementary” both in the technical sense—complex variable theory is to be avoided—and in the usual sense—that of being easy to understand, I hope.

I shall not concern myself with questions of foundations and shall presuppose familiarity only with the most elementary concepts of arithmetic, i.e., elementary divisibility properties, e.g., (greatest common divisor), l.c.m. (least common multiple), essentially unique factorization into primes and the fundamental theorem of arithmetic: if \( p \mid ab \) then \( p \mid a \) or \( p \mid b \).

I shall consider a number of rather distinct topics each of which could easily be the subject of 15 lectures. Hence, I shall not be able to penetrate deeply in any direction. On the other hand, it is well known that in number theory, more than in any other branch of mathematics, it is easy to reach the frontiers of knowledge. It is easy to propound problems in number theory that are unsolved. I shall mention many of these problems; but the trouble with the natural problems of number theory is that they are either too easy or much too difficult. I shall therefore try to expose some problems that are of interest and unsolved but for which there is at least a reasonable hope for a solution by you or me.

The topics I hope to touch on are outlined in the Table of Contents, as are some of the main reference books.

Most of the material I want to cover will consist of old theorems proved in old ways, but I also hope to produce some old theorems proved in new ways and some new theorems proved in old ways. Unfortunately I cannot produce many new theorems proved in really new ways.
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# Chapter 3: Distribution of Primes

1. \( r \) and interpreting \( \binom{2n}{n} \) as the number of ways of choosing \( r \) objects from \( 2n \), we conclude that the second expression is indeed smaller than the first. This contradiction proves the theorem when \( r > 5 \). The results 7, 29, 97, 389, and 1543 show that the theorem is also true for \( r \leq 5 \).

The proof of Bertrand's Postulate by this method is left as an exercise. Bertrand's Postulate may be used to prove the following results.

1. \(\frac{1}{n} \sum_{p \leq n} \frac{1}{p} \text{ is never an integer.}\)

2. Every integer \( > 6 \) can be written as the sum of distinct primes.

3. Every prime \( p_n \) can be expressed in the form
   \[
   p_n = 2 + 3 + 5 + \cdots + p_{n-1}
   \]
   with an error of most 1 (Sierk).

4. The equation \( \pi(n) = \psi(n) \) has exactly 8 solutions.

About 1949 a sensation was created by the discovery by Erdős and Selberg of an elementary proof of the Prime Number Theorem. The main new result was the following estimate, proved in an elementary manner:
\[
\sum_{p \leq x} \log p \sim 2x \log x + O(x).
\]

Although Selberg's inequality is still far from the Prime Number Theorem, the latter can be deduced from it in various ways without recourse to any further number theoretical results. Several proofs of this lemma have been given, perhaps the simplest being due to Tzwarzow and Szelk. Selberg's original proof depends on consideration of the functions
\[
\lambda_n = \mu_n = \sum_{d \mid d} \mu(d) \frac{1}{d^2}
\]
and
\[
T(r) = \sum_{n=1}^{r} \lambda^2.
\]

Some five years ago J. Landeck and L. Moser showed that one could prove Selberg's lemma in a completely elementary way, i.e., using properties of integers only. One of the main tools for doing this is the following rational analogue of the logarithmic function. Let
\[
h(r) = \frac{1}{1 + \frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{3} + \cdots + \frac{1}{r}}.
\]

We prove in an quite elementary way that
\[
|h(e) - h(c)| < \frac{1}{k}.
\]

The results we have established are useful in the investigation of the magnitudes of the arithmetic functions \( \sigma(n) \), \( \phi(n) \) and \( g(n) \). Since these depend not only on the magnitude of \( n \) but also strongly on the arithmetic structure of \( n \), we cannot expect to approximate them by the elementary functions of analysis. Nevertheless, we shall will see that “on average” these functions have a rather simple behavior.

Let \( f \) and \( g \) be functions for which
\[
f(1) + f(2) + \cdots + f(n) + g(1) + g(2) + \cdots + g(n),
\]
we say that \( f \) and \( g \) have the same average order. We will see, for example, that the average order of \( \sigma(n) \) is long, that of \( \phi(n) \) is \(\frac{n}{\log n}\).

Let us consider first a purely heuristic argument for obtaining the average value of \( a(n) \). The probability that \( r \mid n \) and \( r \leq 1 \) contributes \( \left( \frac{1}{k} \right)^r \) to \( a(n) \). Thus the expected value of \( a(n) \) is
\[
\frac{1}{T(r)} \left( \sum_{k=1}^{1} \frac{1}{k} + 1 + \frac{1}{k} \right).
\]

For \( k = 0 \) this will be about \( \log n \). For \( n \geq 1 \) it will be about \( n^{k}(k + 1) \), e.g., for \( n = 1 \) it will be about \( n(k^2) = n^2 + \frac{1}{k^2} \).

Before proceeding to the proof and refinement of some of these results we consider some applications of the inversion of order of summation in certain double sums.

Let \( f \) be an arithmetic function and associate with it the function
\[
F(n) = \sum_{d \mid n} f(d)
\]
and \( g(n) = \sum_{d \mid n} f(d).
\]

We will obtain two expressions for
\[
F(n) = \sum_{n=1}^{r} f(d).
\]
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Consider the inequalities

\[
|a_{11}x_1 + a_{12}x_2 + \ldots + a_{1n}x_n| \leq \lambda_1,
\]
\[
|a_{21}x_1 + a_{22}x_2 + \ldots + a_{2n}x_n| \leq \lambda_2,
\]
\[
\vdots
\]
\[
|a_{m1}x_1 + a_{m2}x_2 + \ldots + a_{mn}x_n| \leq \lambda_m,
\]

where the \(a_{ij}\) are real numbers and the \(\lambda_1, \ldots, \lambda_m\) are positive numbers. The problem is to find sufficient conditions for the existence of integers \(z_1,\ldots,z_n\) not all satisfying the system. The fundamental theorem of Minkowski can be used to prove that a solution will exist provided the determinant \(\det(a_{ij})\) of the coefficients is, in absolute value, less than the product \(\lambda_1 \ldots \lambda_m\). This comes about in the following way. Geometrically, the inequalities determine an \(n\)-dimensional parallelepiped whose volume (or content) is 

\[
\frac{1}{\det(a)} \cdot 2^n \cdot \lambda_1 \cdots \lambda_m.
\]

If \(\lambda_1, \ldots, \lambda_m > 0\) and \(\det(a) \neq 0\), then the content exceeds \(2^n\) and so contains a lattice point different from \(0\).

A very recent analogue of the fundamental theorem of Minkowski is the following. Let \(R\) be a convex region, not necessarily symmetric about \(0\), but having its centroid at \(0\). If it can exceed \(2^n\), then it contains a lattice point not \(0\). The constant \(\frac{1}{2^n}\) is again best possible, but an-individual analogue of this result is unknown.

The following is a conjectured generalization of the fundamental theorem of Minkowski, which we have unfortunately been unable to prove. Perhaps you will be able to prove or disprove it. Let \(R\) be a convex region containing the origin and defined by \(f(x) \leq 0\) for \(x \in R\).

\[
\int_{R} f(x) \, dx > 4
\]

Then \(R\) contains a nontrivial lattice point. For symmetrical regions \(f(x) = f(-x)\), and the conjecture reduces to the fundamental theorem of Minkowski.

Here is a somewhat related and only partially solved problem. If \(M(n)\) be defined as the smallest number such that any convex region around \(0\) can be placed as to cover \(n\) lattice points. Clearly \(M(1) = 0\). It is difficult to show that \(M(2) = 2\), i.e., in any convex region whose area exceeds that of a circle of diameter \(d\) can be used to cover \(2\) lattice points. To determine \(M(3)\) already seems difficult. What one can easily prove is that \(M(3) = 1\\) and we conjecture the existence of a positive constant \(c\) such that \(M(n) \in c \sqrt{n}\).

## Classical Unsolved Problems

1. Is every even number \(> 2\) the sum of two primes? (Goldbach)
2. Is every number of the form \(4n + 2 (n \geq 1)\) the sum of two primes of the form \(4n + 1\)? (Euler)
3. Obtain an asymptotic formula for the number of representations of \(2n\) as the sum of two primes.
4. Can every even number be expressed as the difference of two primes?
5. Can every even number be expressed as the difference of two primes in infinitely many ways?
6. In particular, are there infinitely many prime pairs?
7. Find an asymptotic formula for the number of prime pairs \(\leq z\).
8. Do there exist infinitely many primes of the form \(x^2 + 1\)?
9. Does any polynomial of degree \(> 1\) represent infinitely many primes?
10. Are there infinitely many Fermat primes?
11. Are there infinitely many Mersenne primes (primes of the form \(2^n - 1\))?
12. Are there infinitely many primes of the form \(2p + 1\) where \(p\) is a prime?
13. Is there at least one prime between every pair of consecutive squares?
14. Are there odd perfect numbers?
15. Are there infinitely many pairs of amicable numbers?
16. Let \(\{f(n)\} = f(0) - n\). Does the sequence \(f(n) = f(n-1) + f(n-2)\) for \(n = 1,2,3,\ldots\) remain bounded for every \(n\)? (Pound)
17. Are there infinitely many primes \(p\) for which \(p - 1\) is divisible by \(p^2\)? 

1. *Publisher's Note:* Since the time that these were first written in 1897, it is likely that several of the "unsolved" problems listed here have found solutions. We welcome any information about such developments.
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1. Show that \( \sum_{a=1}^{n} (2d - 1) \binom{n}{2} = \sum_{i=1}^{n} \binom{n}{i}^2 \).

2. Show that \( \sum_{d \mid n} \tau(d)^2 = \left( \sum_{d \mid n} d \right)^2 \).

3. Show that \( \sum_{(a,b)=1} \frac{1}{ab} = \frac{5}{6} \).

4. Show that \( \prod_{p \leq x} \frac{p^2 + 1}{p^2 + p + 1} = \frac{5}{7} \) (The product runs over all primes.)

5. Generalize the results of Problems 3 and 4 above.

6. Show that \( \lim_{n \to \infty} \sum_{d \mid n} \frac{1}{d} = 1 \).

7. Show that \( \lim_{x \to 0} \frac{\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} n^k}{e^{(t-1)(t+1)}n} \).

8. Prove that \( f(x) = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} n^{n} = 2^{n(n-1)/n} \).

9. Show that \( (a,b) = (b,a) \).

10. Show that the least absolute remainder of \( a \mod b \) is \( \alpha - b \left\lfloor \frac{2b}{\alpha} \right\rfloor + \left| \beta - \left\lfloor \frac{2b}{\beta} \right\rfloor \right| \).

11. Prove that \( \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \sqrt{n} \) is irrational.

12. Prove that \( \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{a(n)}{n!} \) is irrational.

13. Prove that \( \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{a(n)}{n} \) is irrational.

20. Is \( x^n + y^n = z^n \) solvable for every \( n > 2 \)? (Fermat)

21. Is \( x^n + x^{n-1} + \cdots + x = x^n - 1 \) solvable for any \( n > 2 \)? (Euler)

22. Is 2 a primitive root of infinitely many primes? (Artin conjectures that 2 is a primitive root of about one third of all primes.)

23. Is Euler's constant \( \gamma \) irrational?

24. Is \( e \) irrational?

25. Are 8 and 9 the only powers (excluding 1) of integers that differ by 1? (Catalan.)

26. For what values of \( k \) is \( x^2 + k = y^2 \)?
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14. Show that \( \frac{n}{\sum_{i=1}^{n} \pi(i)} \geq 1 \).

15. Show that \( \sum_{d|n} d = |n| \).

16. Show that for \( n \geq 3 \), \( 1 + g^2 + g^3 + g^4 \) is not a square.

17. For an integer \( a \geq 0 \), prove that \( \sum_{k=0}^{a} \left| k + \frac{1}{n} \right| = \lfloor a + \frac{1}{n} \rfloor \).

18. Show that \( \frac{1}{\sqrt{n}} \) is asymptotically equivalent to \( \frac{n}{d(n)} \).

19. Prove that \( \sum_{k=1}^{n} \frac{1}{k^2} = x - 2x^2 \).

20. Prove that \( N(n) \geq \frac{1}{1 - x} \sum_{k=1}^{n} 2^k \).

21. Prove that \( F(n) = \prod_{d|n} f(d) \) if and only if \( f(n) = \prod_{d|n} \frac{F(d)}{d} \).

22. Show that the sum of the odd divisors of \( n \) is \( n - \sum_{d|n} (-1)^d \).

23. Prove that the product of the integers \( \leq n \) and relatively prime to \( n \) is

\[
n^{\frac{n}{\pi(n)}} \prod_{d|n} \left( \frac{\pi(d)}{d} \right).
\]

24. Show that every integer has a multiple of the form \( 11...00 \).

25. Prove that there are infinitely many square-free numbers of the form \( n^2 + 1 \).

26. Prove that 

\[
\left( \binom{m}{3} \right) \left( \binom{m}{6} \right) \neq 0 \text{ (mod 3)}.
\]

27. Show that the number of representations of \( n \) as the sum of one or more consecutive positive integers is \( r(n) \) where \( n_1 \) is the largest odd divisor of \( n \).

28. Prove that \( r(n) = 1 \) is solvable for every \( n \).

29. Prove that \( r(x) = 2^k \) is not solvable for any \( k \).

30. Prove that 30 is the largest integer such that every integer less than it and relatively prime to it is 1 or a prime.

31. Let \( a, a_1, a_2, \ldots \) be ordered by not necessarily distinct nonzero residue classes (mod \( p \)). Prove that there exist integers \( 1 \leq j \leq S - 1 \) such that \( a_i + a_j \equiv 1 \text{ (mod } p \text{)} \).

32. Show that the only solutions of \( \varphi(n) = \varphi(n) \) are \( n = 2, 3, 4, 6, 12, 20, 90 \).

33. Show that \( \varphi(n + 1) = p + 1 \) is valid only for \( 1 \leq n \leq 5 \).

34. Show that \( 2a(n) + 2b(n) \) is an integer.

35. Show that if \( a(n) = 1 \), then \( \frac{(a - 1)(b - 1)}{c - 1} \) is an integer.

36. Show that an integral polynomial of at least the first degree cannot represent exactly many primes.

37. Show that if \( f(x) \) is an integral polynomial of degree \( 0 \), then \( f(x) \) for \( x = 1, 2, \ldots \) has an infinite number of distinct prime divisors.

38. Find the number of integers prime to \( n \) in the set \( \{1, 2, \ldots, m(n+1)\} \).

39. Prove that the Fermat primes are relatively prime in pairs.

40. Let \( T_1 = 2, T_n = T_{n-1} - T_{n-2} \). Prove that \( (T_i, T_j) = 1 \) if \( i \neq j \).

41. Prove that 

\[
2(z) = \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{k} \left( 1 + \frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{3} + \ldots \right) = 0.
\]

42. Prove that the density of numbers for which \( (n, \varphi(n)) = 1 \) is zero.

43. Show that for some \( n \), \( 2^n \) has 1000 consecutive 7s in its digital representation.

44. Show that infinitely many squares do not contain the digit 0.

45. Show that for some \( n \), \( n \) contains 1000 consecutive 7s in its digital representation.

46. Show that the density of the numbers for which \( \varphi(n) = n \) is solvable is zero.

47. Show that if \( \varphi(n) = n \) has exactly one solution then \( n > 10^{100} \).

48. Prove that \( \varphi(n) = n - \frac{\varphi(n)}{p - 1} \).

49. Let \( a_1, a_2, \ldots \) be ordered by not necessarily distinct nonzero residue classes \( (\text{mod } p) \). Prove that there exist integers \( 1 \leq j \leq S - 1 \) such that \( a_i + a_j \equiv 1 \text{ (mod } p \text{)} \).

50. Show that the \( n^{th} \) prime is the limit of the sequence

\[
n_0 = n^k, n_k = n + \varphi(n + j) + \ldots.
\]

51. Show that the \( n^{th} \) odd prime is the limit of the sequence 

\[
n, n + \varphi(n), n + \varphi(n + r(n)), \ldots.
\]
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78 Miscellaneous Problems

52. Prove that every positive integer is either of the form n + φ(n) or of the form n + P_n, but not both.

53. Show that \( (3 + 2 \sqrt{2})^{n} + (3 - 2 \sqrt{2})^{n} - 2 \) is a square for every \( n \geq 1 \).

54. Prove that for every real \( x > 2 \) there exists a real \( r \) such that the fractional part of \( r \) is greater than \( 1 - \frac{1}{x} \) for every integer \( x \).

55. Show that if \( p \) and \( q \) are integers such that \( p \) then it is possible to arrange \( n \) or fewer unit resistances to give a combined resistance of \( \phi \).

56. Show that \( (a_n)_{n \geq 1} \) and \( x = a - 12 \sum_{k=1}^{n} \left\lfloor \frac{km}{n} \right\rfloor \) imply \( x \equiv 1 \, (\text{mod} \, n) \).

57. If \( (a, b) = 1 \) prove that \( \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \frac{(-1)^{k}}{k^a} \) diverges.

58. Show that the sum of reciprocals of integers representable as sums of two squares is divergent.

59. Show that the sum of reciprocals of integers whose digital representation does not include 100 consecutive 7's is convergent.

60. Prove that every \( n > 1 \) can be expressed as the sum of two deficient numbers.

61. Prove that every \( n > 10^6 \) can be expressed as the sum of two abundant numbers.

62. Prove that every sufficiently large \( n \) can be expressed as the sum of \( k \)-abundant numbers.

63. Prove that the \( n \)th non-square is \( n + \sqrt{n} \) (where \( \{x\} \) denotes the integer closest to \( x \)).

64. Prove that the \( n \)th nonquasimir is \( n + \sqrt{2n} \).

65. Prove that the \( n \)th non-\( k \)-power is 

\[
n + \sqrt{n + 1}
\]

66. Show that the binary operation \( \circ \) defined on nonnegative integers by 

\[
m \circ n = m + n + \sqrt{mn}
\]

is associative.

67. Prove the same for the operation \( m \times n = m + n + 2\sqrt{mn} \).

68. Show that for \( p > 5 \), \( (p - 1)! \) contains a prime factor \( p \).

69. Show that the only solutions of \( x + y = z - 1 \) are \( (n, k) = (2, 1), (3, 1), \) and \( (5, 2) \).

79 Miscellaneous Problems

70. Show that \( x^2 \equiv 2^{n} \, (\text{mod} \, p) \) has a solution for every prime \( p \geq 3 \).

71. Show that if \( f(x) \) is a polynomial with integer coefficients and \( f(a) \) is a square for each \( a \), then \( f(x) = g(x)f(y) \), where \( g(y) \) is a polynomial with integer coefficients.

72. Given integers \( a_1 < a_2 < ... < a_k < n \) with \( a_j \leq \frac{n}{j} \), prove that for some \( i < j \leq k, a_i \).

73. Show that two of the \( a_i's \) of Problem 72 are relatively prime.

74. With the \( c \)'s of Problem 72, show that \( a_j + c_j \) is solvable.

75. Show that the number of solutions of \( x + 2y + 3z = n \) in non-negative integers is 

\[
\frac{(n + 3 - 1)(n + 3 - 2)}{2}
\]

76. Show that the number of solutions of \( x + 2y + 4z = n \) in non-negative integers is 

\[
\left\{ \begin{array}{ll}
\frac{(1 + 2n + 5)(-1)^{n}}{16}, & \text{if } n \equiv 1 \, (\text{mod} \, 16) \\
0, & \text{otherwise}
\end{array} \right.
\]

77. Show that \( n \) and \( n + 2 \) are simultaneously prime if and only if 

\[
\sum_{k=1}^{n} \left[ \frac{n + 2}{k} + \frac{-1}{-1 - n} \right] = 4.
\]

78. Show that if \( m \) and \( n \) are simultaneously prime if and only if 

\[
4(n - 1) + 1 = 0 \, (\text{mod} \, n + 2), \, (n > 1).
\]

79. Show that for every \( n \), \( 6, 10^2, \) and \( 125 \cdot 10^{t} + 1 \) are Pythagorean triples.

80. Show that the number of ordered pairs of integers whose 1.c.m. is \( n \) is \( \sigma(n) \).

81. Show that 

\[
\frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{3} + \cdots + \sqrt[n]{n}
\]

is never an integer.

82. Show that \( x^2 + 2x + y^2 \) is a square if and only if \( x = y \).

83. Show that 

\[
\sum_{k=1}^{n} \phi(k)x^{n + k} = x(1 + x)^{n - g(n - 1)}
\]

84. Show that the number of regular \( p \)-gons with \( p \) edges is \( 2d \).

85. Prove that the \( n \)th order determinant with \( a_{ij} \) has the value \( \prod_{j=1}^{n} \phi(j) \).
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86. Prove that
   \[
   \sum_{n=1}^\infty \sqrt{n} = \left( \sqrt{n} + 1 + \sqrt{n} - 1 \right).
   \]

87. Prove that if \( p = 4n + 3 \) and \( q = 7 \) are both prime then \( p \equiv -1 \mod 8 \).

88. Show how to split the positive integers into two classes so that neither class contains all the positive terms of any arithmetic progression with common difference exceeding 1.

89. Show that the reciprocal of every integer \( n > 1 \) can be expressed as the sum of a finite number of consecutive terms of the form \( \frac{1}{k} \).

90. In how many ways can this be done? (Answer: \( \Psi(\lfloor \sqrt{n} \rfloor) \)).

91. Show that every rational can be expressed as a sum of a finite number of distinct reciprocals of integers.

92. Show that the density of integers for which \( \lfloor \sqrt{n} \rfloor \) is 1 is \( \frac{1}{2} \).

93. Show that the expected value of \( \lfloor \sqrt{n} \rfloor \) is \( \frac{1}{2} \).

94. Prove that \( x^2 \equiv 0 \) (mod \( p \)) for every prime implies that \( a \) is a square.

95. Prove that \( f(a) = f(b) \) for all \( a, b \) and \( f(a + 1) = f(a) + 1 \) for every \( c \) imply that \( f(a) = a^2 \).

96. Find all primes in the sequence 101, 1001, 10101, 101001, ...

97. Find all primes in the sequence 101, 1001, 10101, 101001, ...

98. Show that if \( f(1) > 0 \) for all \( x \) and \( f(x) - f(2) > 0 \) as \( x \to \infty \) then there exists at most a finite number of solutions in integers of \( f(n) + f(p) = 1 \).

99. Prove that the last consecutive of every prime \( p > 2 \) is less than \( \sqrt{p} \).

100. Prove the existence of infinite sequences of \( 1's, 2's, \) and \( 3's \) so that finite part of which is immediately repeated.

101. Let \( d(n) \) denote the number of square divisors of \( n \). Prove that
    \[
    \lim_{n \to \infty} \frac{1}{n} \sum_{m=1}^n d(m) = \frac{\pi^2}{6}.
    \]

102. Find all \( r \) such that \( r \) cannot end in zeros.

103. Let \( a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_k \) be integers with \( a_1 = 1 \) and \( a_{i+1} \leq a_i \). Prove that there exists a sequence \( (r_i) \) of \( k \) such that \( \sum_{i=1}^k r_i \to \infty \).

104. Show that for a prime \( p \), we can find 
    \[
    \sqrt{p} + \sqrt{2} + \ldots + \sqrt{r - 1} = \frac{2 - 1}{12}.
    \]

105. Prove that \( \pi^2 \) is irrational.

106. Prove that \( \cos \frac{1}{2} \) is irrational.

107. If \( \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n^2} \to \infty \) prove that \( \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n} \) is irrational.

108. Prove that \( a^2 + b^2 + c^2 \neq 0 \) if \( a, b, c \) are integers.

109. Prove that
   \[
   \tau(n) = \left[ \sqrt{n} - \sqrt{-1} \right] + \frac{\sqrt{n}}{2} \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \left( \frac{1}{|n - k|} \right).
   \]

110. Let \( n = a_0 + a_1p + a_2p^2 + ... + a_kp^k \) where \( p \) is a prime and \( 0 \leq a_k < p \). Show that the number of binomial coefficients of order \( k \) that are relatively prime to \( p \) is \( |P(1, k)| \).

111. Show that if \( f_1, f_2, \ldots, f_r \) form a complete residue system (mod \( p \)) then \( f_1, f_2, \ldots, f_{r-1} \) do not.

112. Show that 3 is a primitive root of every Fermat prime.

113. Show that the number of ways in which \( n \) can be represented as the product of two relatively prime factors is \( 2^{c - 1} \).

114. Prove that every even perfect number is of the form \( 2^{(p-1)}(2^p - 1) \).

115. Show that if \( f(x) \) is a polynomial with integer coefficients and there are \( v(n) \) integers relatively prime to \( n \) in the set \( f(1), f(2), \ldots, f(n) \) then \( v(n) \) is a weakly multiplicative function.

116. If \( p = 1 + 1 \) is a prime, show that \( (2n)^2 + 1 \equiv 0 \) (mod \( p \)).

117. Show that 128 is the largest integer not represented as the sum of distinct squares.

118. Show that \( x^3 + y^3 = z^5 \) has infinitely many solutions.

119. Show that \( x^3 + y^3 = z^5 \) has infinitely many solutions.

120. Show that for every \( x > 0 \) there exists a lattice point \( (x, y) \) such that for every lattice point \( (x, y) \) whose distance from \( (x, y) \) does not exceed \( k \), the gcd \( (x, y) > 1 \).

121. Prove that for distinct squares the arithmetic progression is impossible.

122. Prove that for \( n \) composite, \( \tau(n) < n \).

123. Prove that \( 2n \left( 1 + \sqrt{n} \right) \).
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1. Does \( y(n) = y(n + 1) \) have infinitely many solutions?
2. Does \( \sigma(n) = \sigma(n + 1) \) have infinitely many solutions?
3. Does \( y(n) = y(n + 1) = \ldots = y(n+k) \) have solutions for every \( k \)? (Erdős)
4. **Conjecture:** There is no \( n \) for which \( y(n) = n \) has a unique solution. (Carmichael)
5. **Conjecture:** For every positive integer \( k > 1 \) there exist infinitely many \( n \) for which \( y(n) = n \) has exactly \( k \) solutions.
6. Do there exist solutions of \( \sigma(n) = 2n + 1 \)? 
7. Is \( y(x) = \sigma(y) \) solvable for every \( n \)? (Moore)
8. Are there infinitely many solutions of \( \sigma(n) = n + 1 \)?
9. Are there infinitely many numbers not of the form \( \sigma(n) + n \)? (Erdős)
10. Are there infinitely many numbers not of the form \( \sigma(n) \)? (Erdős)
11. Do there exist solutions of \( \sigma(n) = m \) for every integer \( m \)? (Sierpiński)
12. Are 1, 2, 4, and 12 the only powers of 2, all whose digits are powers of 2? (Stark)
13. Does there exist for every \( n \) distinct integers \( a_i \) whose sums in pairs are squares? (This is true for \( n \leq 5 \).)
14. Does there exist a sequence of \( \{ a_k \} \) such that \( \sum_{k=1}^n a_k \) is bounded for every \( k \)? (Erdős)
15. If \( f(n) \) is an arithmetic function of period \( k \) and not identically zero, is it true that \( \sum_{n} f(n) \neq 0 \)? (Erdős)
16. **Conjecture:** For sufficiently large \( n \), \( n \) can be partitioned as \( n = a + b + c + d + e + f \) with \( abc = def \). (Moktan)
17. Is \( \sum_{k=1}^{n} \frac{\sigma(k)}{k} \) irrational for every \( n \)? (Erdős and Kac)
18. Is \( \frac{1}{u} + \frac{1}{v} = d \) solvable for every \( n \)? (Erdős)
19. Has \( n^1 + 1 = r \) any solutions with \( n > r \)? (Brouwer)
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84 Unsolved Problems and Conjectures

20. Conjecture: \( \frac{(2n)!}{(n!)^2} \) is an integer for infinitely many \( n \) (Erdős).

21. Is \( (2n - 1)! \) an integer for every \( k \) and infinitely many \( n \)? (Erdős).

22. Does there exist an \( n \) such that \( [A_n] \) is prime for every \( n \)? (Mills).

23. Does \( [e^n] \) represent infinitely many primes?

24. Does \( [e^n] \) represent infinitely many composite numbers? (Erdős).

25. The number 105 has the property that \( 105 - 2^k \) is prime whenever it is positive. Is 105 the largest number with this property?

26. Is \( p \) the largest number such that for all \( k \) (with \( n \) and \( k > 2 \), \( n - E_k \) is prime)? (Erdős).

27. Does there exist a prime \( p > 41 \) such that \( 2 - z^2 + p \) is prime for \( 1 \leq z \leq p - 17 \)?

28. Let \( a(n) \) denote the number of 1's in the binary representation of \( n \). Does there exist a \( k \) such that for infinitely many primes \( p \), \( a(p) < k \)? (Belman).

29. If \( f(x) \) is a polynomial with integer coefficients, \( f(0) = a \), and \( f(1) = b \), and \( f(a) \), can a sequence \( f(k), k = 1, 2, \ldots \) consist of primes?

30. For sufficiently large \( a \) and \( b \), does the polynomial \( x^n + ax + b \) assume more than \( k \) values (mod \( p \))? (Chowla).

31. Find pairs of integers \( m, n \) such that \( m \) have the same prime factors; \( n = 2^n - 2 \) and \( n = x^2 + 2 \). Are these the only cases? (Straszewicz).

32. What is the largest integer not representable as the sum of distinct cubes? Conjecture:

\[ \limsup_{n \to \infty} \frac{a_n}{n^{1/2}} = 0. \] (Chowla and Derpoot)

34. Conjecture: \( \sum_{p} (−1)^{\phi(p)} = 2 \) (Pillai).

35. Can every prime \( p \equiv 3 \, (mod \, 8) \), \( p > 163 \), be written as the sum of three distinct squares? (Erdős).

36. Is \( (3) \) irrational? (Erdős)

37. Conjecture: The only solution of \( 1 + 2 + \ldots + m = (m - 1)1 + 1 + 2 = 2 \) (Bowen).

38. Conjecture: The solutions of \( x^{(k + 1)} + x^{(k + 2)} + \ldots + x^{(k + k)} = \) \( (x + 1 + 2)^6, 3^3 + 3^4 + 5^3 + 5^6 = 5 \). (Erdős).

39. Does the equation \( 1^2 + 2^2 + \ldots + n^2 = (n(n + 1))^2 \) have solutions? (Kelly).

40. Conjecture: If \( r > 0 \) is not an integer then the density of solutions of \( (n,m) \) is 16 for \( (k) \). (Lambek and Moser).

42. Conjecture: The only solutions of 

\[
\frac{1}{x_1} + \frac{1}{x_2} + \ldots + \frac{1}{x_n} = 1
\]

are 

\[
\text{arc}^2 \left( \frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{3} + \frac{1}{4} + \frac{1}{5} + \frac{1}{12} + \frac{1}{42} \right). 
\] (Erdős).

43. Is it true that for all primes \( p \), all sufficiently large numbers can be written as the sum of distinct numbers of the form \( p^k \)? (Erdős).

Let \( c_k \) be the integers not exceeding \( n \) such that the sum of all integers is \( n - 1 \). What is the maximum of \( \sum_{k=1}^{n} c_k \)? (Conjecture: 31.0) (Erdős).

Let \( 0 < a_1 < a_2 < \ldots < a_k \) be such that the sums of distinct \( a_i \) are distinct. Conjecture: \( k - \log_k 2 \) is bounded.

44. Give a relatively simple proof of Roth's theorem: any sequence that does not contain an arithmetic progression has zero density.

45. Give an elementary proof of Dirichlet's theorem on quadratic residues:

\[
\sum_{p} \left( \frac{2}{p} \right) > 0 \text{ for } p \equiv 3 \, (mod \, 4).
\]
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