An exact algorithm for the boolean connectivity problem for k-CNF

  • Authors:
  • Kazuhisa Makino;Suguru Tamaki;Masaki Yamamoto

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo;Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University;Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, School of Science, Tokai University

  • Venue:
  • SAT'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present an exact algorithm for a PSPACE-complete problem, denoted by CONNkSAT, which asks if the solution space for a given k-CNF formula is connected on the n-dimensional hypercube. The problem is known to be PSPACE-complete for k≥3, and polynomial solvable for k≤2 [6]. We show that CONN kSAT for k≥3 is solvable in time $O((2-\epsilon_k)^n)$ for some constant εk0, where εk depends only on k, but not on n. This result is considered to be interesting due to the following fact shown by [5]: QBF-3-SAT, which is a typical PSPACE-complete problem, is not solvable in time O((2−ε)n) for any constant ε0, provided that the SAT problem (with no restriction to the clause length) is not solvable in time O((2−ε)n) for any constant ε0.