• Media type: Text; E-Article; Electronic Conference Proceeding
  • Title: Finitely Tractable Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problems
  • Contributor: Asimi, Kristina [Author]; Barto, Libor [Author]
  • Published: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2021
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2021.11
  • Keywords: Boolean PCSP ; polymorphism ; homomorphic relaxation ; promise constraint satisfaction ; finite tractability ; Constraint satisfaction problems
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  • Description: The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP) is a generalization of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) that includes approximation variants of satisfiability and graph coloring problems. Barto [LICS '19] has shown that a specific PCSP, the problem to find a valid Not-All-Equal solution to a 1-in-3-SAT instance, is not finitely tractable in that it can be solved by a trivial reduction to a tractable CSP, but such a CSP is necessarily over an infinite domain (unless P=NP). We initiate a systematic study of this phenomenon by giving a general necessary condition for finite tractability and characterizing finite tractability within a class of templates - the "basic" tractable cases in the dichotomy theorem for symmetric Boolean PCSPs allowing negations by Brakensiek and Guruswami [SODA'18].
  • Access State: Open Access