Manuel Bodirsky ; Johannes Greiner ; Jakub Rydval - Tractable Combinations of Temporal CSPs

lmcs:7013 - Logical Methods in Computer Science, May 25, 2022, Volume 18, Issue 2 - https://doi.org/10.46298/lmcs-18(2:11)2022
Tractable Combinations of Temporal CSPsArticle

Authors: Manuel Bodirsky ; Johannes Greiner ; Jakub Rydval

    The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) of a first-order theory T is the computational problem of deciding whether a given conjunction of atomic formulas is satisfiable in some model of T. We study the computational complexity of CSP$(T_1 \cup T_2)$ where $T_1$ and $T_2$ are theories with disjoint finite relational signatures. We prove that if $T_1$ and $T_2$ are the theories of temporal structures, i.e., structures where all relations have a first-order definition in $(Q;<)$, then CSP$(T_1 \cup T_2)$ is in P or NP-complete. To this end we prove a purely algebraic statement about the structure of the lattice of locally closed clones over the domain $Q$ that contain Aut$(Q;<)$.


    Volume: Volume 18, Issue 2
    Published on: May 25, 2022
    Accepted on: March 1, 2022
    Submitted on: December 22, 2020
    Keywords: Mathematics - Logic,Computer Science - Computational Complexity,Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science,06A05, 68Q25, 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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