Minimal Taylor Algebras as a Common Framework for the Three Algebraic Approaches to the CSP

This paper focuses on the algebraic theory underlying the study of the complexity and the algorithms for the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). We unify, simplify, and extend parts of the three approaches that have been developed to study the CSP over finite templates - absorption theory that wa...

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Vydané v:Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science s. 1 - 13
Hlavní autori: Barto, Libor, Brady, Zarathustra, Bulatov, Andrei, Kozik, Marcin, Zhuk, Dmitriy
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Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: IEEE 29.06.2021
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Shrnutí:This paper focuses on the algebraic theory underlying the study of the complexity and the algorithms for the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). We unify, simplify, and extend parts of the three approaches that have been developed to study the CSP over finite templates - absorption theory that was used to characterize CSPs solvable by local consistency methods (JACM'14), and Bulatov's and Zhuk's theories that were used for two independent proofs of the CSP Dichotomy Theorem (FOCS'17, JACM'20).As the first contribution we present an elementary theorem about primitive positive definability and use it to obtain the starting points of Bulatov's and Zhuk's proofs as corollaries. As the second contribution we propose and initiate a systematic study of minimal Taylor algebras. This class of algebras is broad enough so that it suffices to verify the CSP Dichotomy Theorem on this class only, but still is unusually well behaved. In particular, many concepts from the three approaches coincide in the class, which is in striking contrast with the general setting.We believe that the theory initiated in this paper will eventually result in a simple and more natural proof of the Dichotomy Theorem that employs a simpler and more efficient algorithm, and will help in attacking complexity questions in other CSP-related problems.
DOI:10.1109/LICS52264.2021.9470557