Quantified Equality Constraints

  • Authors:
  • Manuel Bodirsky;Hubie Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • bodirsky@lix.polytechnique.fr;hubie.chen@upf.edu

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

An equality template is a relational structure with infinite universe whose relations can be defined by Boolean combinations of equalities. We prove a complexity classification for quantified constraint satisfaction problems (QCSPs) over equality templates: These problems are in L (decidable in logarithmic space), NP-hard, or coNP-hard. To establish our classification theorem we combine methods from universal algebra with concepts from model theory.