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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2023.5
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-184670
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2023/18467/
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Bonacina, Ilario ; Bonet, Maria Luisa ; Levy, Jordi

Polynomial Calculus for MaxSAT

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Abstract

MaxSAT is the problem of finding an assignment satisfying the maximum number of clauses in a CNF formula. We consider a natural generalization of this problem to generic sets of polynomials and propose a weighted version of Polynomial Calculus to address this problem.
Weighted Polynomial Calculus is a natural generalization of MaxSAT-Resolution and weighted Resolution that manipulates polynomials with coefficients in a finite field and either weights in ℕ or ℤ. We show the soundness and completeness of these systems via an algorithmic procedure.
Weighted Polynomial Calculus, with weights in ℕ and coefficients in ?₂, is able to prove efficiently that Tseitin formulas on a connected graph are minimally unsatisfiable. Using weights in ℤ, it also proves efficiently that the Pigeonhole Principle is minimally unsatisfiable.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{bonacina_et_al:LIPIcs.SAT.2023.5,
  author =	{Bonacina, Ilario and Bonet, Maria Luisa and Levy, Jordi},
  title =	{{Polynomial Calculus for MaxSAT}},
  booktitle =	{26th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2023)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-286-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{271},
  editor =	{Mahajan, Meena and Slivovsky, Friedrich},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/18467},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-184670},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SAT.2023.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Polynomial Calculus, MaxSAT, Proof systems, Algebraic reasoning}
}

Keywords: Polynomial Calculus, MaxSAT, Proof systems, Algebraic reasoning
Collection: 26th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2023)
Issue Date: 2023
Date of publication: 09.08.2023

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