Random k-Sat: A Tight Threshold For Moderately Growing k

  • Authors:
  • Alan Frieze;C. Wormald†

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA;Dept. of Math. and Stats., Univ. of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia and Canada Research Chair in Combinatorics and Optimization, Dept. of Combinatorics and Optimization, Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo ...

  • Venue:
  • Combinatorica
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We consider a random instance I of k-SAT with n variables and m clauses, where k=k(n) satisfies k—log2 n→∞. Let m 0=2 k nln2 and let ∈=∈(n)0 be such that ∈n→∞. We prove that $${}^{{\lim }}_{{n \to \infty }} \Pr {\left( {I\;{\text{is}}\;{\text{satisfiable}}} \right)} = \left\{ {^{{1\;m \leqslant {\left( {1 - \in } \right)}m_{0} }}_{{0\;m \geqslant {\left( {1 + \in } \right)}m_{0} }} .} \right.$$