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The 3-SAT problem with large number of clauses in $\infty$-replica symmetry breaking scheme

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-07 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the structure of the UNSAT-phase of the overconstrained 3-SAT model by studying the low temperature phase of the associated disordered spin model. We derive the \infty Replica Symmetry Broken equations for a general class of disordered spin models which includes the Sherrington - Kirkpatrick model, the Ising pp-spin model as well as the overconstrained 3-SAT model as particular cases. We have numerically solved the \infty Replica Symmetry Broken equations using a pseudo-spectral code down to and including zero temperature. We find that the UNSAT-phase of the overconstrained 3-SAT model is of the \infty-RSB kind: in order to get a stable solution the replica symmetry has to be broken in a continuous way, similarly to the SK model in external magnetic field.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0108433,
  title  = {The 3-SAT problem with large number of clauses in $\infty$-replica symmetry breaking scheme},
  author = {A. Crisanti and L. Leuzzi and G. Parisi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0108433},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

19 pages, 7 figures; some section improved; iopart style