Equivalence and Isomorphism for Boolean Constraint Satisfaction
摘要
A Boolean constraint satisfaction instance is a conjunction of constraint applications, where the allowed constraints are drawn from a fixed set B of Boolean functions. We consider the problem of determining whether two given constraint satisfaction instances are equivalent and prove a Dichotomy Theorem by showing that for all sets C of allowed constraints, this problem is either polynomial-time solvable or coNP-complete, and we give a simple criterion to determine which case holds. A more general problem addressed in this paper is the isomorphism problem, the problem of determining whether there exists a renaming of the variables that makes two given constraint satisfaction instances equivalent in the above sense. We prove that this problem is coNP-hard if the corresponding equivalence problem is coNP-hard, and polynomial-time many-one reducible to the graph isomorphism problem in all other cases.
引用
@article{arxiv.cs/0202036,
title = {Equivalence and Isomorphism for Boolean Constraint Satisfaction},
author = {E. Boehler and E. Hemaspaandra and Steffen Reith and Heribert Vollmer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0202036},
year = {2007}
}