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22nd Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2007)
Symmetric Datalog and Constraint Satisfaction Problems in Logspace
Wroclaw, Poland
July 10-July 14
ISBN: 0-7695-2908-9
L?szl? Egri, McGill University, Canada
Benoit Larose, Concordia University, Canada
Pascal Tesson, Laval University, Canada
We introduce symmetric Datalog, a syntactic restriction of linear Datalog and show that its expressive power is exactly that of restricted symmetric Krom monotone SNP. The deep result of Reingold [17] on the complexity of undirected connectivity suffices to show that symmetric Datalog queries can be evaluated in logarithmic space. We show that for a number of constraint languages \Gamma, the complement of the constraint satisfaction problem CSP(\Gamma) can be expressed in symmetric Datalog. In particular, we show that if CSP(\Gamma) is first-order definable and \Lambda is a finite subset of the relational clone generated by \Gamma then ?CSP(\Lambda) is definable in symmetric Datalog. Over the two-element domain and under standard complexity-theoretic assumptions, expressibility of ?CSP(\Gamma) in symmetric Datalog corresponds exactly to the class of CSPs computable in logarithmic space. Finally, we describe a fairly general subclass of implicational (or 0/1/all) constraints for which the complement of the corresponding CSP is also definable in symmetric Datalog. Our results provide preliminary evidence that symmetric Datalog may be a unifying explanation for families of CSPs lying in L.
Citation:
L?szl? Egri, Benoit Larose, Pascal Tesson, "Symmetric Datalog and Constraint Satisfaction Problems in Logspace," lics, pp.193-202, 22nd Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2007), 2007
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