Meditations on quantified constraint satisfaction

  • Authors:
  • Hubie Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Departament de Tecnologies de la Informació i les Comunicacions, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Logic and Program Semantics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The quantified constraint satisfaction problem (QCSP) is the problem of deciding, given a structure and a first-order prenex sentence whose quantifier-free part is the conjunction of atoms, whether or not the sentence holds on the structure. One obtains a family of problems by defining, for each structure B , the problem QCSP(B ) to be the QCSP where the structure is fixed to be B . In this article, we offer a viewpoint on the research program of understanding the complexity of the problems QCSP(B ) on finite structures. In particular, we propose and discuss a group of conjectures; throughout, we attempt to place the conjectures in relation to existing results and to emphasize open issues and potential research directions.