Sensitive Instances of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem

Authors Libor Barto , Marcin Kozik , Johnson Tan , Matt Valeriote



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Libor Barto
  • Department of Algebra, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Praha 8, Czech Republic
Marcin Kozik
  • Theoretical Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Johnson Tan
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Matt Valeriote
  • Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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Libor Barto, Marcin Kozik, Johnson Tan, and Matt Valeriote. Sensitive Instances of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem. In 47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 168, pp. 110:1-110:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.110

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We investigate the impact of modifying the constraining relations of a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) instance, with a fixed template, on the set of solutions of the instance. More precisely we investigate sensitive instances: an instance of the CSP is called sensitive, if removing any tuple from any constraining relation invalidates some solution of the instance. Equivalently, one could require that every tuple from any one of its constraints extends to a solution of the instance. Clearly, any non-trivial template has instances which are not sensitive. Therefore we follow the direction proposed (in the context of strict width) by Feder and Vardi in [Feder and Vardi, 1999] and require that only the instances produced by a local consistency checking algorithm are sensitive. In the language of the algebraic approach to the CSP we show that a finite idempotent algebra 𝔸 has a k+2 variable near unanimity term operation if and only if any instance that results from running the (k, k+1)-consistency algorithm on an instance over 𝔸² is sensitive. A version of our result, without idempotency but with the sensitivity condition holding in a variety of algebras, settles a question posed by G. Bergman about systems of projections of algebras that arise from some subalgebra of a finite product of algebras. Our results hold for infinite (albeit in the case of 𝔸 idempotent) algebras as well and exhibit a surprising similarity to the strict width k condition proposed by Feder and Vardi. Both conditions can be characterized by the existence of a near unanimity operation, but the arities of the operations differ by 1.

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  • Theory of computation → Problems, reductions and completeness
  • Theory of computation → Complexity theory and logic
  • Theory of computation → Constraint and logic programming
Keywords
  • Constraint satisfaction problem
  • bounded width
  • local consistency
  • near unanimity operation
  • loop lemma

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