P versus NP

P versus NP is considered as one of the most important open problems in computer science. This consists in knowing the answer of the following question: Is P equal to NP? This question was first mentioned in a letter written by John Nash to the National Security Agency in 1955. A precise statement of the P versus NP problem was introduced independently in 1971 by Stephen Cook and Leonid Levin. Since that date, all efforts to find a proof for this problem have failed. Another major complexity classes are LOGSPACE and NLOGSPACE. Whether LOGSPACE = NLOGSPACE is another fundamental question that it is as important as it is unresolved. SAT is easier if the number of literals in a clause is limited to at most 2, in which case the problem is called 2SAT. This problem can be solved in polynomial time, and in fact is complete for the complexity class NLOGSPACE. If additionally all OR operations in literals are changed to XOR operations, the result is called exclusive-or 2-satisfiability, which is a problem complete for the complexity class LOGSPACE. Given an instance of exclusive-or 2-satisfiability and a positive integer K, the problem maximum exclusive-or 2-satisfiability consists in deciding whether this Boolean formula has a truth assignment with at leat K satisfiable clauses. We prove that maximum exclusive-or 2-satisfiability is in NLOGSPACE. Moreover, we demonstrate this problem is NP-complete. To attack the P versus NP question the concept of NP-completeness has been very useful. If any single NP-complete problem can be solved in polynomial time, then every NP problem has a polynomial time algorithm. Since every language in the class NLOGSPACE is in P, then we show that our problem is in P and NP-complete and thus, P = NP.