The Complexity of Combinations of Qualitative Constraint Satisfaction
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Authors: Manuel Bodirsky ; Johannes Greiner
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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 T∪S 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(T1∪T2) 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(T1∪T2) (unless P=NP).