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The Discretizable Molecular Distance Geometry Problem is a subset of instances of the distance geometry problem that can be solved by a combinatorial algorithm called “Branch-and-Prune”. It was observed empirically that the number of solutions of YES instances is always a power of two. We perform an extensive theoretical analysis of the number of solutions for these instances and we prove that this number is a power of two with probability one.
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Liberti, L., Masson, B., Lee, J., Lavor, C., Mucherino, A. (2011). On the Number of Solutions of the Discretizable Molecular Distance Geometry Problem. In: Wang, W., Zhu, X., Du, DZ. (eds) Combinatorial Optimization and Applications. COCOA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6831. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22616-8_26
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