A Kolmogorov complexity proof of the Lovász Local Lemma for satisfiability

  • Authors:
  • Jochen Messner;Thomas Thierauf

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The Lovasz Local Lemma provides a syntactic property that a Boolean formula is satisifiable. Moser and Tardos came up with a constructive proof of the lemma, i.e. the proof gives a method to actually construct a satisfying assignment. In this paper, we give another constructive proof of the lemma, based on Kolmogorov complexity. Actually, we even improve their result slightly.