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Ideal Membership Problem for Boolean Minority and Dual Discriminator

Data Structures and Algorithms 2024-10-30 v1 Computational Complexity Computational Geometry

Abstract

We consider the polynomial Ideal Membership Problem (IMP) for ideals encoding combinatorial problems that are instances of CSPs over a finite language. In this paper, the input polynomial ff has degree at most d=O(1)d=O(1) (we call this problem IMPd_d). We bridge the gap in \cite{MonaldoMastrolilli2019} by proving that the IMPd_d for Boolean combinatorial ideals whose constraints are closed under the minority polymorphism can be solved in polynomial time. This completes the identification of the tractability for the Boolean IMPd_d. We also prove that the proof of membership for the IMPd_d for problems constrained by the dual discriminator polymorphism over any finite domain can be found in polynomial time. Our results can be used in applications such as Nullstellensatz and Sum-of-Squares proofs.

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@article{arxiv.2410.22102,
  title  = {Ideal Membership Problem for Boolean Minority and Dual Discriminator},
  author = {Arpitha P. Bharathi and Monaldo Mastrolilli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.22102},
  year   = {2024}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2006.16422; text overlap with arXiv:2011.03700 by other authors

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