The Polynomial Hierarchy and $\omega$-categorical CSPs
Logic in Computer Science
2026-04-28 v1
Abstract
In 2008, Bodirsky and Grohe showed that for every -level of the Polynomial Hierarchy (PH) there are -categorical Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) complete for this level. We show that, in fact, there are -categorical CSPs complete for any level of the PH. To this end, we use a recent result of Bodirsky, Kn\"{a}uer, and Rudolph for constructing -categorical CSPs from sentences of Monadic Second-Order logic (MSO) with certain preservation properties. As a secondary contribution, we develop a new tool for producing MSO sentences satisfying said preservation properties.
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@article{arxiv.2604.24539,
title = {The Polynomial Hierarchy and $\omega$-categorical CSPs},
author = {Santiago Guzmán Pro and Jakub Rydval},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.24539},
year = {2026}
}
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20 pages