Peter Jonsson

  1. Horn versus full first-order: complexity dichotomies in algebraic constraint satisfaction.

    Authors: Manuel Bodirsky, Peter Jonsson, Timo von Oertzen
    Subjects: Logic in Computer Science
    Abstract

    We study techniques for deciding the computational complexity of
    infinite-domain constraint satisfaction problems. For certain fundamental
    algebraic structures Delta, we prove definability dichotomy theorems of the
    following form: for every first-order expansion Gamma of Delta, either Gamma
    has a quantifier-free Horn definition in Delta, or there is an element d of
    Gamma such that all non-empty relations in Gamma contain a tuple of the form
    (d,...,d), or all relations with a first-order definition in Delta have a
    primitive positive definition in Gamma.

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