Critique of Barbosa's "P != NP Proof"

11/20/2017

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by   Jackson Abascal, et al.

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We review André Luiz Barbosa's paper "P != NP Proof," in which the classes P and NP are generalized and claimed to be proven separate. We highlight inherent ambiguities in Barbosa's definitions, and show that attempts to resolve this ambiguity lead to flaws in the proof of his main result.