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TR05-030 | 12th February 2005 00:00

An Improved Upper Bound for SAT

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TR05-030
Authors: Evgeny Dantsin, Alexander Wolpert
Publication: 7th March 2005 16:56
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Abstract:

We give a randomized algorithm for testing satisfiability of Boolean formulas in conjunctive normal form with no restriction on clause length. Its running time is at most 2^{n(1-1/\alpha)} up to a polynomial factor, where \alpha = \ln(m/n) + O(\ln \ln m) and n, m are respectively the number of variables and the number of clauses in the input formula. This bound is asymptotically better than the previously best known 2^{n(1-1/\log(2m))} bound for SAT.



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