Models and thresholds for random constraint satisfaction problems

  • Authors:
  • Michael Molloy

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

  • Venue:
  • STOC '02 Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We introduce a class of models for random Constraint Satisfaction Problems. This class includes and generalizes many previously studied models. We characterize those models from our class which exhibit thresholds for satisfiability in the sense that the limiting probability of satisfiability changes significantly as the number of constraints increases. We also discuss models which exhibit sharp thresholds in the sense that the limiting probability jumps from 0 to 1 suddenly.