The study of constraint satisfaction problems definable in various fragments of Datalog has recently gained considerable importance. We consider constraint satisfaction problems that are definable in the smallest natural recursive fragment of Datalog - monadic linear Datalog with at most one EDB per rule. We give combinatorial and algebraic characterisations of such problems, in terms of caterpillar dualities and lattice operations, respectively. We then apply our results to study graph H-colouring problems.
Index Terms:
constraint satisfaction problem, homomorphism, duality, caterpillar structures, Datalog
Citation:
Catarina Carvalho, V?ctor Dalmau, Andrei Krokhin, "Caterpillar Duality for Constraint Satisfaction Problems," lics, pp.307-316, 2008 23rd Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, 2008