The Complexity of Resilience for Digraph Queries

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Abstract

We prove a complexity dichotomy for the resilience problem for unions of conjunctive digraph queries (i.e., for existential positive sentences over the signature {R} of directed graphs). Specifically, for every union µ of conjunctive digraph queries, the following problem is in P or NP-complete: given a directed multigraph G and a natural number u, can we remove u edges from G so that G |= ¬µ? In fact, we verify a more general dichotomy conjecture from [6] for all resilience problems in the special case of directed graphs, and show that for such unions of queries µ there exists a countably infinite (‘dual’) valued structure ∆µ which either primitively positively constructs 1-in-3-3-SAT, and hence the resilience problem for µ is NP-complete by general principles, or has a pseudo cyclic canonical fractional polymorphism, and the resilience problem for µ is in P.

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication43rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2026)
EditorsMeena Mahajan, Florin Manea, Annabelle McIver, KimThang Nguyen
PublisherSchloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing
Pages15:1-15:20
ISBN (electronic)9783959774123
Publication statusPublished - 2026
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesLeibniz international proceedings in informatics : LIPIcs
Volume364
ISSN1868-8969

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-8228-3611/work/208071925
Scopus 105037320666

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Keywords

  • unions of conjunctive queries, valued constraints, pp-constructions, resilience, computational complexity