The Satisfiability Threshold for Randomly Generated Binary Constraint Satisfaction Problems

نویسندگان

  • Alan M. Frieze
  • Michael Molloy
چکیده

We study two natural models of randomly generated constraint satisfaction problems. We determine how quickly the domain size must grow with n to ensure that these models are robust in the sense that they exhibit a non-trivial threshold of satisfiability, and we determine the asymptotic order of that threshold. We also provide resolution complexity lower bounds for these models. One of our results immediately yields a theorem regarding homomorphisms between two random graphs.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Random Struct. Algorithms

دوره 28  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2003