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True or False: If an NP-complete problem can be solved in cubic time, then all NP...

True or False: If an NP-complete problem can be solved in cubic time, then all NP complete problems can be solved in cubic time. Cubic = O(n^3). Explain why true or false. I think the answer is False but I'm not exactly sure why that is so if someone could explain.

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False:

A problem x that is in NP is also in NP-Complete if and only if every other problem in NP can be quickly (ie. in polynomial time) transformed into x.

In other words:

  1. x is in NP, and
  2. Every problem in NP is reducible to x

Now, in order for every problem to be solved in cubic time, they need to be polynomially reduced to the NP-complete problem x (which can be solved in polynomial time) which is not always true.

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