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Optimal Chain Density and Space-Time Tradeoffs for the TSP

partialconfidence 70%

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Precise statement

The paper nearly settles the tradeoff between the size of a set system over $[n]$ and its number of full chains, an extremal question raised by Johnson, Leader and Russell as a counterpart to Sperner-type results, and linked by recent work to the space and time complexity of Bellman–Held–Karp dynamic programming for permutation problems.

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What AI did

ChatGPT 5

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Provider: OpenAI · Prompt public: unknown · Independence: unknown

Verification boundary

unreviewed

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Correctness: unknown · statement fidelity: unaudited · peer review: none

Timeline

  1. arXiv

    The authors describe the tradeoff as nearly settled rather than settled.

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argument (source-reported)

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