No-Rainbow Problem and the Surjective Constraint Satisfaction Problem

Dmitriy Zhuk

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No-Rainbow Problem and the Surjective Constraint Satisfaction Problem

Dmitriy Zhuk

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The Surjective Constraint Satisfaction Problem (SCSP) is the problem of deciding whether there exists a surjective assignment to a set of variables subject to some specified constraints, where a surjective assignment is an assignment containing all elements of the domain. In this paper we show that the most famous SCSP, called No-Rainbow Problem, is NP-Hard. Additionally, we disprove the conjecture saying that the SCSP over a constraint language $\Gamma$ and the CSP over the same language with constants have the same computational complexity up to poly-time reductions. Our counter-example also shows that the complexity of the SCSP cannot be described in terms of polymorphisms of the constraint language.

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Dmitriy Zhuk. 2020-03-26. No-Rainbow Problem and the Surjective Constraint Satisfaction Problem. https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11764

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