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1. Physics and Astronomy › Theoretical and Computational Physics

   Number of Guards Needed by a Museum: A Phase Transition in Vertex Covering of Random Graphs

   Weigt and Hartmann · Physical Review Letters · 2000

   The paper studies the NP-complete vertex cover problem on random graphs with finite connectivity, using exact numerical simulations and replica calculations to characterise an abrupt transition as the allowed cover size shrinks.

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   1. UncheckedIn random graphs, shrinking the permitted size of a vertex cover produces an abrupt change in whether the problem can be solved and how hard it typically is.“When the allowed size of the cover set is decreased, a discontinuous transition in solvability and typical-case complexity occurs.”