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The k-SATISFIABILITY problem remains NP-complete for dense families

✍ Scribed by Ingo Schiermeyer


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
228 KB
Volume
125
Category
Article
ISSN
0012-365X

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✦ Synopsis


We consider the ~ATISFIABILITY problem (~-SAT): Given a family F of n clauses cl, ._, , c, in conjunctive normal form, each consisting of k literals corresponding to k different variables of a set of r 2 k 2 1 boolean variables, is F satisfiable? By k-SAT@ no) we denote the k-SAT problem restricted to families with n > n,(r) clauses. We prove that for each k > 3 and each integer I > 4 such that r > Ik2, the k-SAT(>(;)

(2'-l-4/1))

problem is NP-complete.