Dedicated to Sri Ramakrishna
A Complexity Theoretic Overview of GCT
On P vs. NP, Geometric Complexity Theory, Explicit Proofs and the Complexity Barrier, Technical Report, Computer Science Department, The University of Chicago, August, 2009. cs.ArXiv preprint cs.CC/0908.1932
This is a high level informal exposition.
A Mathematical Overview of GCT
On P vs. NP, Geometric Complexity Theory, and the Riemann Hypothesis, Technical Report, Computer Science department, The University of Chicago, August, 2009. cs.ArXiv preprint cs.CC/0908.1936
This overview is based on a series of three lectures. Video lectures in this series are available
here
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GCT Papers
Lower Bounds in a Parallel Model without bit operations, SIAM J. Comput., 28, (1999), pp. 1460-1509.
On P vs. NP, Geometric Complexity Theory, and The Flip I: a high-level view, Technical Report TR-2007-13, computer science department, The University of Chicago, September, 2007.
(With M. Sohoni) Geometric Complexity Theory: Introduction, Technical Report TR-2007-16, computer science department, The University of Chicago, September, 2007. Lecture notes for an introductory graduate course on geometric complexity theory in the computer science department, the university of Chicago.
(With M. Sohoni) Geometric complexity theory I: An approach to the P vs. NP and related problems, SIAM J. Comput., vol 31, no. 2, pp. 496-526, (2001).
(With M. Sohoni) Geometric complexity theory II: Towards explicit obstructions for embeddings among class varieties. SIAM J. Comput., Vol. 38, Issue 3, June 2008.
(With M. Sohoni) Geometric complexity theory, P vs. NP and explicit obstructions, in "Advances in Algebra and Geometry", Edited by C. Musili, the proceedings of the International Conference on Algebra and Geometry, Hyderabad, 2001.
(With M. Sohoni) Geometric complexity theory III: on deciding positivity of Littlewood-Richardson coefficients, cs.ArXiv preprint cs.CC/0501076 v1 26 Jan 2005
(With M. Sohoni) Geometric complexity theory IV: quantum group for the Kronecker problem, preprint, computer science department, The University of Chicago, March, 2007.
(With Hariharan Narayanan) Geometric Complexity Theory V: On deciding nonvanishing of a generalized Littlewood-Richardson coefficient, Technical Report TR-2007-05, computer science department, The University of Chicago, May, 2007.
Geometric Complexity Theory VI: the flip via saturated and positive integer programming in representation theory and algebraic geometry, Technical Report TR-2007-04, computer science department, The University of Chicago, May, 2007.
Geometric Complexity Theory VII: Nonstandard quantum group for the plethysm problem, Technical Report TR-2007-14, computer science department, The University of Chicago, September, 2007.
Geometric Complexity Theory VIII: On canonical bases for the nonstandard quantum groups, Technical Report TR-2007-15, computer science department, The University of Chicago, September, 2007.
Erratum to the saturation hypothesis in "Geometric Complexity Theory VI", Technical Report TR-2008-10, computer science department, The University of Chicago, October, 2008.
Appendix to Geometric Complexity Theory II, Technical Report, The University of Chicago, February, 2009.