Constraint Satisfaction Problems around Skolem Arithmetic

نویسندگان

  • Christian Glaßer
  • Peter Jonsson
  • Barnaby Martin
چکیده

We study interactions between Skolem Arithmetic and certain classes of Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). We revisit results of Glaßer et al. [17] in the context of CSPs and settle the major open question from that paper, finding a certain satisfaction problem on circuits to be decidable. This we prove using the decidability of Skolem Arithmetic. We continue by studying first-order expansions of Skolem Arithmetic without constants, (N;×), as CSPs. We find already here a rich landscape of problems with non-trivial instances that are in P as well as those that are NP-complete.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1504.04181  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015