scholarly journals Equivalence of strongly connected graphs and black-and-white 2-SAT problems

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 755 ◽  
Author(s):  
Csaba Bíró ◽  
Gábor Kusper
Author(s):  
Gábor Kusper ◽  
Csaba Biró

In a previous paper we defined the Black-and-White SAT problem which has exactly two solutions, where each variable is either true or false. We showed that Black-and-White $2$-SAT problems represent strongly connected directed graphs. We presented also the strong model of communication graphs. In this work we introduce two new models, the weak model, and the Balatonbogl\'{a}r model of communication graphs. A communication graph is a directed graph, where no self loops are allowed. In this work we show that the weak model of a strongly connected communication graph is a Black-and-White SAT problem. We prove a powerful theorem, the so called Transitions Theorem. This theorem states that for any model which is between the strong and the weak model, we have that this model represents strongly connected communication graphs as Blask-and-White SAT problems. We show that the Balatonbogl\'{a}r model is between the strong and the weak model, and it generates $3$-SAT problems, so the Balatonbogl\'{a}r model represents strongly connected communication graphs as Black-and-White $3$-SAT problems. Our motivation to study these models is the following: The strong model generates a $2$-SAT problem from the input directed graph, so it does not give us a deep insight how to convert a general SAT problem into a directed graph. The weak model generates huge models, because it represents all cycles, even non-simple cycles, of the input directed graph. We need something between them to gain more experience. From the Balatonbogl\'{a}r model we learned that it is enough to have a subset of a clause, which represents a cycle in the weak model, to make the Balatonbogl\'{a}r model more compact. We still do not know how to represent a SAT problem as a directed graph, but this work gives a strong link between two prominent fields of formal methods: SAT problem and directed graphs.


Networks ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Anciaux-Mundeleer ◽  
P. Hansen

1969 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 769-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward A. Bender ◽  
Thomas W. Tucker

A directed graphG is a set of vertices V and a subset of V × V called the edges of G. A path in G of length k,is such that (vi, vi+1) is an edge of G for 1 ≦ i ≦ k. A directed graph G is strongly connected if there is a path from every vertex of G to every other vertex. A circuit is a path whose two end vertices are equal. An elementary circuit has no other equal vertices. See (1) for a fuller discussion.Let G be a finite, strongly connected, directed graph (fscdg). The kth power Gk of G is the directed graph with the same vertices as G and edges of the form (i, j) where G has a path of length k from i to j.


Author(s):  
Christopher Auer ◽  
Christian Bachmaier ◽  
Franz J. Brandenburg ◽  
Kathrin Hanauer

2005 ◽  
Vol 41 (8) ◽  
pp. 937-956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Baldry ◽  
Sayantan Ghosal

2001 ◽  
Vol 234 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 119-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Aharoni ◽  
Eli Berger

Author(s):  
Soumalya Joardar ◽  
Arnab Mandal

Abstract We study the invariance of KMS states on graph $C^{\ast }$ -algebras coming from strongly connected and circulant graphs under the classical and quantum symmetry of the graphs. We show that the unique KMS state for strongly connected graphs is invariant under the quantum automorphism group of the graph. For circulant graphs, it is shown that the action of classical and quantum automorphism groups preserves only one of the KMS states occurring at the critical inverse temperature. We also give an example of a graph $C^{\ast }$ -algebra having more than one KMS state such that all of them are invariant under the action of classical automorphism group of the graph, but there is a unique KMS state which is invariant under the action of quantum automorphism group of the graph.


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