Do any decision problems exist outside NP and NP-Hard?

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Do any decision problems exist outside NP and NP-Hard?

This question asks about NP-hard problems that are not NP-complete. I'm wondering if there exist any decision problems that are neither NP nor NP-hard. In order to be in NP, problems have to have a verifier that runs in polynomial time on a deterministic Turing machine. Obviously, all problems in P meet that criteria, but what about the problems with sub-exponential complexity? They do not belong to P and it's not obvious to me that they all have efficient deciders. And they certainly don't qualify...

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NP contains all (decision) problems that are at most as hard as NP-complete problems with respect to...

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Simply put, there are problems that are harder than all problems in NP, and if they could be solved...

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What are the real-life applications to the solutions of the Millennium Prize Problems?

The Millennium Problems are: Yang–Mills and Mass Gap Experiment  and computer simulations suggest the existence of a "mass gap" in the  solution to the quantum versions of the Yang-Mills equations. But no  proof of this property...

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Not everything in mathematics must have a real-life application. In fact, most results in mathematics...

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If NP-hard problems are those which are at least as hard as those in NP, then shouldn't NP lie completely in NP-Hard?

All Problems in NP can be mapped to itself, implying that all NP problems are NP-hard problems. So, NP-hard should completely cover NP. I know I am surely wrong somewhere. I would like to know what is wrong with this argument.

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The proposition is: "NP- hard problems are at least as hard as the HARDEST problem in NP."...

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What will be some applications of commodotised quantum computers? (or any 'trivialisation' of NP-hard problems)?

Imagine, hypothetically, if we were to build computers that could solve even the most complex NP-hard problems. This imaginary computer would be so fast that even the exponential slow-down of NP-hard problems doesn't become apparent (a kind of oracle...

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Cryptography breaking. After quantum computers become popular, passwords and security as we know it...

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Is it possible that P could equal NP, but that it's impossible to provide explicit constructions of such algorithms that could solve our "hard" problems in polynomial time?

In the same sense that the Banach-Tarski Paradox doesn't provide an explicit construction, despite showing that that a sphere can be decomposed into a finite number of pieces and reassembled without stretching/funny business. I realize that this question...

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There is a possibility that even if P=NP we cannot prove it so.  There's even the possibility that we...

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Is cryptographic hash inversion (believed to be) NP-complete, or NP-hard, etc.?

I can't find the answer through googling, so here goes: I would think that attacking (finding a pre-image of) a hash digest would be NP complete in one sense: it's easy to very a hash inversion (putting it in NP), but difficult to find that pre-image...

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You have a few misunderstandings in your question. Hash inversion cannot be in NP or NP-hard because...

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Why does P=NP mean we just need 1 algorithm to solve all the NP problems?

I know about P, NP, and NP-complete. As I see it, NP-complete is just a subset of NP, there are problems in NP cannot be reduced to other NP problems. Why does P=NP imply NP=NP-complete?

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Are there problems in NP which are not NP-complete but polynomial time algorithm is unknown?

As the question says, I am wondering if there are problems in NP which are not NP-complete (or not known to be NP-complete) but it is unknown if they are in P? More specifically, I am also wondering under what class did primality testing fall in before...

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Problems that are in NP, and are not NP-complete or in P are called NP-indeterminate (or NP-intermediate...

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Np- hard and np- complete?

can something be np- hard but np- complete?

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yes this one is mentioned in the examples section of the wiki for np hard it's an np complete problem...

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