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Reducing NEXP-complete problems to DQBF

Logic in Computer Science 2022-08-15 v1

Abstract

We present an alternative proof of the NEXP-hardness of the satisfiability of {\em Dependency Quantified Boolean Formulas} (DQBF). Besides being simple, our proof also gives us a general method to reduce NEXP-complete problems to DQBF. We demonstrate its utility by presenting explicit reductions from a wide variety of NEXP-complete problems to DQBF such as (succinctly represented) 3-colorability, Hamiltonian cycle, set packing and subset-sum as well as NEXP-complete logics such as the Bernays-Sch\"onfinkel-Ramsey class, the two-variable logic and the monadic class. Our results show the vast applications of DQBF solvers which recently have gathered a lot of attention among researchers.

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@article{arxiv.2208.06014,
  title  = {Reducing NEXP-complete problems to DQBF},
  author = {Fa-Hsun Chen and Shen-Chang Huang and Yu-Cheng Lu and Tony Tan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.06014},
  year   = {2022}
}

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To appear in the proceedings of FMCAD 2022

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