Computer Science – Computational Complexity
Scientific paper
2008-09-10
Computer Science
Computational Complexity
Scientific paper
Generalised Satisfiability Problems (or Boolean Constraint Satisfaction Problems), introduced by Schaefer in 1978, are a general class of problem which allow the systematic study of the complexity of satisfiability problems with different types of constraints. In 1979, Valiant introduced the complexity class parity P, the problem of counting the number of solutions to NP problems modulo two. Others have since considered the question of counting modulo other integers. We give a dichotomy theorem for the complexity of counting the number of solutions to Generalised Satisfiability Problems modulo integers. This follows from an earlier result of Creignou and Hermann which gave a counting dichotomy for these types of problem, and the dichotomy itself is almost identical. Specifically, counting the number of solutions to a Generalised Satisfiability Problem can be done in polynomial time if all the relations are affine. Otherwise, except for one special case with k = 2, it is #_kP-complete.
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