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An Order out of Nowhere: A New Algorithm for Infinite-Domain CSPs

Authors Antoine Mottet , Tomáš Nagy , Michael Pinsker

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  • Constraint Satisfaction Problems
  • Hypergraphs
  • Polymorphisms

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Abstract

We consider the problem of satisfiability of sets of constraints in a given set of finite uniform hypergraphs. While the problem under consideration is similar in nature to the problem of satisfiability of constraints in graphs, the classical complexity reduction to finite-domain CSPs that was used in the proof of the complexity dichotomy for such problems cannot be used as a black box in our case. We therefore introduce an algorithmic technique inspired by classical notions from the theory of finite-domain CSPs, and prove its correctness based on symmetries that depend on a linear order that is external to the structures under consideration. Our second main result is a P/NP-complete complexity dichotomy for such problems over many sets of uniform hypergraphs. The proof is based on the translation of the problem into the framework of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) over infinite uniform hypergraphs. Our result confirms in particular the Bodirsky-Pinsker conjecture for CSPs of first-order reducts of some homogeneous hypergraphs. This forms a vast generalization of previous work by Bodirsky-Pinsker (STOC'11) and Bodirsky-Martin-Pinsker-Pongrácz (ICALP'16) on graph satisfiability.

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Antoine Mottet, Tomáš Nagy, and Michael Pinsker. An Order out of Nowhere: A New Algorithm for Infinite-Domain CSPs. In 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 297, pp. 148:1-148:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.148

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Antoine Mottet
  • Research Group on Theoretical Computer Science, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Tomáš Nagy
  • Theoretical Computer Science Department, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Michael Pinsker
  • Institut für Diskrete Mathematik und Geometrie, Technische Universität Wien, Austria

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  • Nagy, Tomáš: This research was funded in whole or in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P 32337, I 5948]. This research was funded in whole or in part by National Science Centre, Poland 2021/03/Y/ST6/00171. For the purpose of Open Access, the authors have applied a CC-BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version arising from this submission.
  • Pinsker, Michael: This research was funded in whole or in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P 32337, I 5948]. For the purpose of Open Access, the authors have applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version arising from this submission. This research is also funded by the European Union (ERC, POCOCOP, 101071674). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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