A Characterisation of First-Order Constraint Satisfaction Problems

We describe simple algebraic and combinatorial characterisations of finite relational core structures admitting finitely many obstructions. As a consequence, we show that it is decidable to determine whether a constraint satisfaction problem is first-order definable: we show the general problem to b...

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Main Authors: Benoit Larose, Cynthia Loten, Claude Tardif
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Logical Methods in Computer Science e.V. 2007-11-01
Series:Logical Methods in Computer Science
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Online Access:https://lmcs.episciences.org/1097/pdf