Non-dichotomies in Constraint Satisfaction Complexity

  • Authors:
  • Manuel Bodirsky;Martin Grohe

  • Affiliations:
  • École Polytechnique (CNRS), France;Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICALP '08 Proceedings of the 35th international colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, Part II
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We show that every computational decision problem is polynomial-time equivalent to a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) with an infinite template. We also construct for every decision problem Lan 茂戮驴-categoricaltemplate Γsuch that Lreduces to CSP(Γ) and CSP(Γ) is in coNPL(i.e., the class coNP with an oracle for L). CSPs with 茂戮驴-categorical templates are of special interest, because the universal-algebraic approach can be applied to study their computational complexity.Furthermore, we prove that there are 茂戮驴-categorical templates with coNP-complete CSPs and 茂戮驴-categorical templates with coNP- intermediate CSPs, i.e., problems in coNP that are neither coNP- complete nor in P (unless P=coNP). To construct the coNP-intermediate CSP with 茂戮驴-categorical template we modify the proof of Ladner's theorem. A similar modification allows us to also prove a non-dichotomy result for a class of left-hand side restricted CSPs, which was left open in [10]. We finally show that if the so-called local-global conjecturefor infinite constraint languages(over a finite domain) is false, then there is no dichotomy for the constraint satisfaction problem for infinite constraint languages.