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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2013.44

Bounded-width QBF is PSPACE-complete

Authors: Albert Atserias and Sergi Oliva

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 20, 30th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2013)

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Tree-width is a well-studied parameter of structures that measures their similarity to a tree. Many important NP-complete problems, such as Boolean satisfiability (SAT), are tractable on bounded tree-width instances. In this paper we focus on the canonical PSPACE-complete problem QBF, the fully-quantified version of SAT. It was shown by Pan and Vardi [LICS 2006] that this problem is PSPACE-complete even for formulas whose tree-width grows extremely slowly. Vardi also posed the question of whether the problem is tractable when restricted to instances of bounded tree-width. We answer this question by showing that QBF on instances with constant tree-width is PSPACE-complete.

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Albert Atserias and Sergi Oliva. Bounded-width QBF is PSPACE-complete. In 30th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2013). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 20, pp. 44-54, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2013)

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@InProceedings{atserias_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2013.44,
  author =	{Atserias, Albert and Oliva, Sergi},
  title =	{{Bounded-width QBF is PSPACE-complete}},
  booktitle =	{30th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2013)},
  pages =	{44--54},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-50-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2013},
  volume =	{20},
  editor =	{Portier, Natacha and Wilke, Thomas},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2013.44},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-39217},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2013.44},
  annote =	{Keywords: Tree-width, QBF, PSPACE-complete}
}

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