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Levin: universal search problems

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Complexity theory · Scoped scientific or research-capability contribution

Reference score110,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Defined efficiently checkable witness-search problems and reductions between them, identified universal examples and stated an optimal-search construction in the specified computation model.

Scientific scope

Defined efficiently checkable witness-search problems and reductions between them, identified universal examples and stated an optimal-search construction in the specified computation model. Scope limitation: The result does not prove P differs from NP. Its original search formulation and resource convention must be retained. The listed graph-embedding problem concerns a subgraph; it must not be misreported as a proof that ordinary graph isomorphism is NP-complete.

Evidence

Assessment uses the catalogue-linked source evidence for the stated contribution. The result does not prove P differs from NP. Its original search formulation and resource convention must be retained. The listed graph-embedding problem concerns a subgraph; it must not be misreported as a proof that ordinary graph isomorphism is NP-complete.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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