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Injective hardness condition for PCSPs

Computational Complexity 2024-05-20 v1

Abstract

We present a template for the Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP) which is NP-hard but does not satisfy the current state-of-the-art hardness condition [ACMTCT'21]. We introduce a new "injective" condition based on the smooth version of the layered PCP Theorem and use this new condition to confirm that the problem is indeed NP-hard. In the second part of the article, we establish a dichotomy for Boolean PCSPs defined by templates with polymorphisms in the set of linear threshold functions. The reasoning relies on the new injective condition.

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@article{arxiv.2405.10774,
  title  = {Injective hardness condition for PCSPs},
  author = {Demian Banakh and Marcin Kozik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.10774},
  year   = {2024}
}

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To be published in LICS'24

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