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Modular difference logic is hard

Computational Complexity 2008-11-07 v1

Abstract

In connection with machine arithmetic, we are interested in systems of constraints of the form x + k \leq y + k'. Over integers, the satisfiability problem for such systems is polynomial time. The problem becomes NP complete if we restrict attention to the residues for a fixed modulus N.

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@article{arxiv.0811.0987,
  title  = {Modular difference logic is hard},
  author = {Nikolaj Bjørner and Andreas Blass and Yuri Gurevich and Madan Musuvathi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.0987},
  year   = {2008}
}
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