The Resolution Complexity of Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems

  • Authors:
  • Michael Molloy;Mohammad R. Salavatipour

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We consider random instances of constraint satisfaction problems where each variable has domain size $d$ and each constraint contains $t$ restrictions on $k$ variables. For each $(d,k,t)$ we determine whether the resolution complexity is a.s. constant, polynomial, or exponential in the number of variables. For a particular range of $(d,k,t)$, we determine a sharp threshold for resolution complexity where the resolution complexity drops from a.s. exponential to a.s. polynomial when the clause density passes a specific value.