The inequality-satisfiability problem

  • Authors:
  • Dorit S. Hochbaum;Erick Moreno-Centeno

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, 4181 Etcheverry Hall, Mail Code 1777, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1777, USA and Walter A. Haas School of Business, Un ...;Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, 4181 Etcheverry Hall, Mail Code 1777, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1777, USA

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We define a generalization of the satisfiability problem (SAT) where each ''clause'' is an or-list of inequalities in n variables. This problem is NP-complete even when containing only two inequalities per ''clause'', but solvable in polynomial time when either the number of variables or the number of ''clauses'' is fixed.