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A novel weighting scheme for random $k$-SAT

Discrete Mathematics 2013-10-17 v1

Abstract

Consider a random kk-CNF formula Fk(n,rn)F_{k}(n, rn) with nn variables and rnrn clauses. For every truth assignment σ{0,1}n\sigma\in \{0, 1\}^{n} and every clause c=1kc=\ell_{1}\vee\cdots\vee\ell_{k}, let d=d(σ,c)d=d(\sigma, c) be the number of satisfied literal occurrences in cc under σ\sigma. For fixed β>1\beta>-1 and λ>0\lambda>0, we take ω(σ,c)=0\omega(\sigma, c)=0, if d=0d=0; ω(σ,c)=λ(1+β)\omega(\sigma, c)=\lambda(1+\beta), if d=1d=1 and ω(σ,c)=λd\omega(\sigma, c)=\lambda^{d}, if d>1d>1. Applying the above weighting scheme, we get that if Fk(n,rn)F_{k}(n, rn) is unsatisfiable with probability tending to one as nn\rightarrow\infty, then r2.83,8.09,18.91,40.81,84.87r\geq2.83, 8.09, 18.91, 40.81, 84.87 for k=3,4,5,6k=3, 4, 5, 6 and 7,7, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.1310.4303,
  title  = {A novel weighting scheme for random $k$-SAT},
  author = {Zongsheng Gao and Jun Liu and Ke Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.4303},
  year   = {2013}
}

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8 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:cs/0305009 by other authors

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