Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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439130 | Theoretical Computer Science | 2009 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
We systematically investigate the computational complexity of constraint satisfaction problems for constraint languages over an infinite domain. In particular, we study a generalization of the well-established notion of maximal constraint languages from finite to infinite domains. If the constraint language can be defined with an ω-categorical structure, then maximal constraint languages are in one-to-one correspondence to minimal oligomorphic clones. Based on this correspondence, we derive general tractability and hardness criteria for the corresponding constraint satisfaction problems.
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