A Complexity Dichotomy in Spatial Reasoning via Ramsey Theory
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Abstract
Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) for first-order reducts of finitely bounded homogeneous structures form a large class of computational problems that might exhibit a complexity dichotomy, P versus NP-complete. A powerful method to obtain polynomial-time tractability results for such CSPs is a certain reduction to polynomial-time tractable finite-domain CSPs defined over k-types, for a sufficiently large k. We give sufficient conditions when this method can be applied and apply these conditions to obtain a new complexity dichotomy for CSPs of first-order expansions of the basic relations of the well-studied spatial reasoning formalism RCC5. We also classify which of these CSPs can be expressed in Datalog. Our method relies on Ramsey theory; we prove that RCC5 has a Ramsey order expansion.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 10 |
| Number of pages | 39 |
| Journal | ACM transactions on computation theory : TOCT |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2024 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| Scopus | 85195842336 |
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| dblp | journals/toct/BodirskyB24 |
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Keywords
- computational complexity, Constraint satisfaction, model theory, ramsey theory, RCC5, spatial reasoning, universal algebra