Constraint satisfaction problems for reducts of homogeneous graphs

DOI10.4230/LIPICS.ICALP.2016.119zbMATH Open1388.68102arXiv1602.05819OpenAlexW2962837380MaRDI QIDQ4598261FDOQ4598261

Michael Pinsker, András Pongrácz, Manuel Bodirsky, Barnaby Martin

Publication date: 19 December 2017

Abstract: For $ngeq3$, let $(H_n,E)$ denote the $n$-th Henson graph, i.e., the unique countable homogeneous graph with exactly those finite graphs as induced subgraphs that do not embed the complete graph on $n$ vertices. We show that for all structures $Gamma$ with domain $H_n$ whose relations are first-order definable in $(H_n,E)$ the constraint satisfaction problem for $Gamma$ is either in P or is NP-complete. We moreover show a similar complexity dichotomy for all structures whose relations are first-order definable in a homogeneous graph whose reflexive closure is an equivalence relation. Together with earlier results, in particular for the random graph, this completes the complexity classification of constraint satisfaction problems of structures first-order definable in countably infinite homogeneous graphs: all such problems are either in P or NP-complete.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05819

zbMATH Keywords

computational complexityconstraint satisfactionRamsey theoryuniversal algebrahomogeneous graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25) Structural characterization of families of graphs (05C75) Model theory of denumerable and separable structures (03C15) Applications of universal algebra in computer science (08A70)

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