Mittagsseminar (in cooperation with J. Lengler, A. Steger, and D. Steurer)

Date and Time: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 12:15 pm

Duration: This information is not available in the database

Location: OAT S15/S16/S17

Speaker: Timon Hertli

Investigating and Improving the PPSZ Algorithm for SAT (master thesis)

A critical variable of a satisfiable CNF formula is a variable that has the same value in all satisfying assignments. Using a simple case distinction on the fraction of critical variables of a CNF formula, we improve the bound for 3-SAT from O(1.32216^n) by Rolf [2006] to O(1.32153^n). Using a different approach, Iwama et al. [2010+] very recently achieved a running time of O(1.32113^n). Our method nicely combines with theirs, yielding the currently fastest known algorithm with running time O(1.32065^n). We also improve the bound for 4-SAT from O(1.47390^n) [Iwama, Tamaki 2004] to O(1.46928^n), where O(1.46981^n) can be obtained using the methods of [Iwama, Tamaki 2004] and [Rolf 2006]. This is very close to the bound for unique 4-SAT for PPSZ, O(1.46899^n).

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