• DocumentCode
    3092672
  • Title

    An Algebraic Preservation Theorem for Aleph-Zero Categorical Quantified Constraint Satisfaction

  • Author

    Chen, Hubie ; Müller, Moritz

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    25-28 June 2012
  • Firstpage
    215
  • Lastpage
    224
  • Abstract
    We prove a preservation theorem for positive Horn definability in aleph-zero categorical structures. In particular, we define and study a construction which we call the periodic power of a structure, and define a periomorphism of a structure to be a homomorphism from the periodic power of the structure to the structure itself. Our preservation theorem states that, over an aleph-zero categorical structure, a relation is positive Horn definable if and only if it is preserved by all periomorphisms of the structure. We give applications of this theorem, including a new proof of the known complexity classification of quantified constraint satisfaction on equality templates.
  • Keywords
    algebra; constraint satisfaction problems; aleph-zero categorical quantified constraint satisfaction; aleph-zero categorical structures; algebraic preservation theorem; complexity classification; homomorphism; periomorphism; positive Horn definability; Cloning; Computational complexity; Context; Electronic mail; Periodic structures; aleph-zero categoricity; computational complexity; periodic power; preservation theorem; quantified constraint satisfaction;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Logic in Computer Science (LICS), 2012 27th Annual IEEE Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Dubrovnik
  • ISSN
    1043-6871
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2263-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LICS.2012.32
  • Filename
    6280440