Distance constraint satisfaction problems

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Bodirskya, M., Dalmau, V., Martin, B., Mottet, A. and Pinsker, M. 2016. Distance constraint satisfaction problems. Information and Computation. 247, pp. 87-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2015.11.010
TypeArticle
TitleDistance constraint satisfaction problems
AuthorsBodirskya, M., Dalmau, V., Martin, B., Mottet, A. and Pinsker, M.
Abstract

We study the complexity of constraint satisfaction problems for templates Γ over the integers where the relations are first-order definable from the successor function. In the case that Γ is locally finite (i.e., the Gaifman graph of Γ has finite degree), we show that Γ is homomorphically equivalent to a structure with one of two classes of polymorphisms (which we call modular max and modular min) and the CSP for Γ can be solved in polynomial time, or Γ is homomorphically equivalent to a finite transitive structure, or the CSP for Γ is NP-complete. Assuming a widely believed conjecture from finite domain constraint satisfaction (we require the tractability conjecture by Bulatov, Jeavons and Krokhin in the special case of transitive finite templates), this proves that those CSPs have a complexity dichotomy, that is, are either in P or NP-complete.

PublisherElsevier
JournalInformation and Computation
ISSN0890-5401
Publication dates
Print01 Apr 2016
Publication process dates
Deposited08 May 2017
Accepted19 Mar 2015
Output statusPublished
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2015.11.010
LanguageEnglish
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