The algebraic dichotomy conjecture for infinite domain Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Abstract
We prove that an $\omega$-categorical core structure primitively positively interprets all finite structures with parameters if and only if some stabilizer of its polymorphism clone has a homomorphism to the clone of projections, and that this happens if and only if its polymorphism clone does not contain operations $\alpha$, $\beta$, $s$ satisfying the identity $\alpha s(x,y,x,z,y,z) \approx \beta s(y,x,z,x,z,y)$. This establishes an algebraic criterion equivalent to the conjectured borderline between P and NP-complete CSPs over reducts of finitely bounded homogenous structures, and accomplishes one of the steps of a proposed strategy for reducing the infinite domain CSP dichotomy conjecture to the finite case. Our theorem is also of independent mathematical interest, characterizing a topological property of any $\omega$-categorical core structure (the existence of a continuous homomorphism of a stabilizer of its polymorphism clone to the projections) in purely algebraic terms (the failure of an identity as above).
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- February 2016
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1602.04353
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1602.04353
- Bibcode:
- 2016arXiv160204353B
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science;
- Computer Science - Computational Complexity;
- Mathematics - Logic
- E-Print:
- 15 pages