Abstrakt
The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP) is a generalization of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) that includes approximation variants of satisfiability and graph coloring problems. Barto [LICS '19] has shown that a specific PCSP, the problem to find a valid Not-All-Equal solution to a 1-in-3-SAT instance, is not finitely tractable in that it can be solved by a trivial reduction to a tractable CSP, but such a CSP is necessarily over an infinite domain (unless P=NP).
We initiate a systematic study of this phenomenon by giving a general necessary condition for finite tractability and characterizing finite tractability within a class of templates - the "basic"tractable cases in the dichotomy theorem for symmetric Boolean PCSPs allowing negations by Brakensiek and Guruswami [SODA'18]. (C) Kristina Asimi and Libor Barto; licensed under Creative Commons License CC-BY 4.0 46th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2021).