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Enumerating maximal consistent closed sets in closure systems

Computational Complexity 2021-02-10 v1 Discrete Mathematics Combinatorics

Abstract

Given an implicational base, a well-known representation for a closure system, an inconsistency binary relation over a finite set, we are interested in the problem of enumerating all maximal consistent closed sets (denoted by MCCEnum for short). We show that MCCEnum cannot be solved in output-polynomial time unless P=NP\textsf{P} = \textsf{NP}, even for lower bounded lattices. We give an incremental-polynomial time algorithm to solve MCCEnum for closure systems with constant Carath\'eodory number. Finally we prove that in biatomic atomistic closure systems MCCEnum can be solved in output-quasipolynomial time if minimal generators obey an independence condition, which holds in atomistic modular lattices. For closure systems closed under union (i.e., distributive), MCCEnum has been previously solved by a polynomial delay algorithm.

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@article{arxiv.2102.04245,
  title  = {Enumerating maximal consistent closed sets in closure systems},
  author = {Lhouari Nourine and Simon Vilmin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.04245},
  year   = {2021}
}

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