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Structure-Aware Lower Bounds and Broadening the Horizon of Tractability for QBF
Linköping University, Department of Computer and Information Science, Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer Systems. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering.
TU Wien, Austria.
MIT, MA 02139 USA.
TU Wien, Austria.
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2023 (English)In: 2023 38TH ANNUAL ACM/IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, LICS, IEEE , 2023Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The QSAT problem, which asks to evaluate a quantified Boolean formula (QBF), is of fundamental interest in approximation, counting, decision, and probabilistic complexity and is also considered the prototypical PSPACE-complete problem. As such, it has previously been studied under various structural restrictions (parameters), most notably parameterizations of the primal graph representation of instances. Indeed, it is known that QSAT remains PSPACE-complete even when restricted to instances with constant treewidth of the primal graph, but the problem admits a double-exponential fixed-parameter algorithm parameterized by the vertex cover number (primal graph). However, prior works have left a gap in our understanding of the complexity of QSAT when viewed from the perspective of other natural representations of instances, most notably via incidence graphs. In this paper, we develop structure-aware reductions which allow us to obtain essentially tight lower bounds for highly restricted instances of QSAT, including instances whose incidence graphs have bounded treedepth or feedback vertex number. We complement these lower bounds with novel algorithms for QSAT which establish a nearly-complete picture of the problems complexity under standard graph-theoretic parameterizations. We also show implications for other natural graph representations, and obtain novel upper as well as lower bounds for QSAT under more fine-grained parameterizations of the primal graph.

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IEEE , 2023.
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IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, ISSN 1043-6871
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Computer Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-197492DOI: 10.1109/LICS56636.2023.10175675ISI: 001036707700002ISBN: 9798350335873 (electronic)ISBN: 9798350335880 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-197492DiVA, id: diva2:1796402
Conference
38th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS), Boston Univ, Boston, MA, jun 26-29, 2023
Funder
ELLIIT - The Linköping‐Lund Initiative on IT and Mobile Communications
Note

Funding Agencies|Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [J4656, P32830, Y1329]; Society for Research Funding Lower Austria (GFF) [ExzF-0004]; Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) [ICT19-060, ICT19-065]; ELLIIT - Swedish government

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