New Worst-Case Upper Bounds for SAT

  • Authors:
  • Edward A. Hirsch

  • Affiliations:
  • Steklov Institute of Mathematics at St. Petersburg, 27 Fontanka, 191011 St. Petersburg, Russia.http://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/˜hirsch

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Automated Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In 1980 Monien and Speckenmeyer proved that satisfiability of a propositional formula consisting of iK clauses (of arbitrary length) can be checked in time of the order 2iK / 3. Recently Kullmann and Luckhardt proved the worst-case upper bound 2iL / 9, where iL is the length of the input formula. The algorithms leading to these bounds are based on the isplitting method, which goes back to the Davis–Putnam procedure. iTransformation rules (pure literal elimination, unit propagation, etc.) constitute a substantial part of this method. In this paper we present a new transformation rule and two algorithms using this rule. We prove that these algorithms have the worst-case upper bounds 20. 30897 iK and 20. 10299 iL, respectively.