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Bounds on Threshold of Regular Random $k$-SAT

Information Theory 2010-04-26 v3 Computational Complexity Combinatorics math.IT

Abstract

We consider the regular model of formula generation in conjunctive normal form (CNF) introduced by Boufkhad et. al. We derive an upper bound on the satisfiability threshold and NAE-satisfiability threshold for regular random kk-SAT for any k3k \geq 3. We show that these bounds matches with the corresponding bound for the uniform model of formula generation. We derive lower bound on the threshold by applying the second moment method to the number of satisfying assignments. For large kk, we note that the obtained lower bounds on the threshold of a regular random formula converges to the lower bound obtained for the uniform model. Thus, we answer the question posed in \cite{AcM06} regarding the performance of the second moment method for regular random formulas.

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@article{arxiv.1002.1290,
  title  = {Bounds on Threshold of Regular Random $k$-SAT},
  author = {Vishwambhar Rathi and Erik Aurell and Lars Rasmussen and Mikael Skoglund},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.1290},
  year   = {2010}
}

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Accepted to SAT 2010

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