摘要

We consider random instances of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) where each variable has domain size O(1), each constraint is on O(1) variables, and the constraints are chosen from a specified distribution. The number of constraints is cn, where c is a constant. We prove that for every possible distribution, either the resolution complexity is almost surely polylogarithmic for sufficiently large c, or it is almost surely exponential for every c > 0. We characterize the distributions of each type. To do so, we introduce a closure operation on constraint sets which yields the set of all constraints that, in some sense, appear implicitly in the random CSP.

  • 出版日期2013

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