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Manuel Bodirsky ; Johannes Greiner - The Complexity of Combinations of Qualitative Constraint Satisfaction Problems

lmcs:5481 - Logical Methods in Computer Science, February 20, 2020, Volume 16, Issue 1 - https://doi.org/10.23638/LMCS-16(1:21)2020
The Complexity of Combinations of Qualitative Constraint Satisfaction ProblemsArticle

Authors: Manuel Bodirsky ; Johannes Greiner

    The CSP of a first-order theory T is the problem of deciding for a given finite set S of atomic formulas whether TS is satisfiable. Let T1 and T2 be two theories with countably infinite models and disjoint signatures. Nelson and Oppen presented conditions that imply decidability (or polynomial-time decidability) of CSP(T1T2) under the assumption that CSP(T1) and CSP(T2) are decidable (or polynomial-time decidable). We show that for a large class of ω-categorical theories T1,T2 the Nelson-Oppen conditions are not only sufficient, but also necessary for polynomial-time tractability of CSP(T1T2) (unless P=NP).


    Volume: Volume 16, Issue 1
    Published on: February 20, 2020
    Accepted on: January 7, 2020
    Submitted on: May 20, 2019
    Keywords: Mathematics - Logic,Computer Science - Computational Complexity,Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science,03C98, 03D15, 08A70,F.4.1,F.2.2,G.2.1
    Funding:
      Source : OpenAIRE Graph
    • Homogeneous Structures, Constraint Satisfaction Problems, and Topological Clones; Funder: European Commission; Code: 681988

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