NAE 3SAT and NAE EU3SAT #
NAEThreeSAT is NAE3SAT, with clauses of width at most three. NAEEUThreeSAT is NAE EU3SAT:
every clause has exactly three distinct variables. NAEThreeSATThree adds a bound of three
total literal occurrences per variable to NAEThreeSAT. The bounded-occurrence reduction uses
binary clauses; it does not prove hardness for exact-three occurrence-three NAE.
The original reduction from positive exact-one triples introduces one shared reference variable.
It replaces (a,b,c) by NAE triples (a,b,c), (a,b,t), (a,c,t), (b,c,t). Global
complement symmetry lets us assume t=true; the last three clauses then forbid two true
source literals, while the first requires at least one. The reference is fresh, and the output
has exactly three distinct variables per clause. Source hardness is
PositiveOneInExactThreeSAT_npComplete.
Main definitions #
NAESAT: unrestricted not-all-equal satisfiability.NAEThreeSAT: NAE3SAT, with width at most three.NAEEUThreeSAT: NAE EU3SAT, with exactly three distinct variables per clause.NAEThreeSATThree: NAE3SAT-3, with width and variable occurrences at most three.toNAEEUThreeSAT: the exact-three distinct-variable reduction.
Main results #
Not-all-equal satisfiable formulas, without syntactic restrictions.
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Not-all-equal satisfiability with at most three literals per clause.
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NAE EU3SAT: not-all-equal satisfiability with exactly three distinct variables per clause.
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Not-all-equal width-three SAT with at most three literal occurrences per variable.
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Evaluate both polarities of every clause under the usual certificate assignment.
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First-occurrence certificates also encode all NAE assignments.
Evaluating the complemented certificate assignment is polynomial-time.
NAE evaluation of an arbitrary certificate takes native polynomial time.
Width-three NAE satisfiability belongs to NP.
Exact-three distinct-variable NAE satisfiability belongs to NP.
Width-three occurrence-three NAE satisfiability belongs to NP.
Shift source variables away from the shared reference variable zero.
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Shift a source triple and add its three pair constraints using reference variable zero.
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The four-clause replacement is native polynomial-time on binary source labels.
A true reference makes every triple's replacement express exactly-one semantics.
All four target clauses have three distinct variables. The reference is fresh.
A true reference gives the original exact-one formula under the shifted assignment.
Global complement symmetry removes the need to pin the fresh reference variable.
Compile positive exact-one triples to NAE triples, rejecting malformed source syntax.
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The complete NAE reduction is native polynomial-time under binary CNF encodings.
Total correctness of the exact-three distinct-variable NAE compiler.
Positive exact-three exact-one SAT reduces to exact-three distinct-variable NAE SAT.
NAE EU3SAT is NP-hard, without an occurrence bound.
NAE EU3SAT is NP-complete.
Forget exact-three syntax after rejecting formulas outside that source syntax.
Width-at-most-three NAE SAT is NP-hard.
Width-at-most-three NAE SAT is NP-complete.
The ordinary splitter is also a total reduction between the NAE languages.
The native occurrence splitter gives the bounded-occurrence NAE reduction.
NAE 3SAT-3 is NP-hard with binary and ternary clauses allowed.
NAE 3SAT-3 is NP-complete with binary and ternary clauses allowed.