Planar NAE3SAT is in P

  • Authors:
  • B. M. E. Moret

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGACT News
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

Lichtenstein proposed the use of a "planar" version of 3SAT as a departure point for proofs of NP -completeness that would at once prove the general graph problem as well as its restriction to planar graphs to be NP-complete. Dyer and Frieze later proved that Planar lin3SAT is also NP-complete. Of the three standard versions of 3SAT, only NAE3SAT remained open. We provide a very simple reduction from NAE3SAT to Simple MaxCut, which respects Lichtenstein's conditions; since it is known that the planar version of (Simple) MaxCut is in P, so is the planar version of NAE3SAT, thereby setting the question (if in a somewhat unexpected way).