Quantified Equality Constraints

  • Authors:
  • Manuel Bodirsky;Hubie Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany;Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

  • Venue:
  • LICS '07 Proceedings of the 22nd Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

An equality template (also equality constraint language) is a relational structure with infinite universe whose relations can be defined by boolean combinations of equalities. We prove a complete complexity classification for quantified constraint satisfaction problems (QCSPs) over equality templates: these problems are in L (decidable in logarithmic space), NP-complete, or PSPACE-complete. To establish our classification theorem we combine methods from universal algebra with concepts from model theory.