nn-permutability and linear Datalog implies symmetric Datalog

We show that if $\mathbb A$ is a core relational structure such that CSP($\mathbb A$) can be solved by a linear Datalog program, and $\mathbb A$ is $n$-permutable for some $n$, then CSP($\mathbb A$) can be solved by a symmetric Datalog program (and thus CSP($\mathbb A$) lies in deterministic logspace). At the moment, it is not known for which structures $\mathbb A$ will CSP($\mathbb A$) be solvable by a linear Datalog program. However, once somebody obtains a characterization of linear Datalog, our result immediately gives a characterization of symmetric Datalog

Deciding absorption

We characterize absorption in finite idempotent algebras by means of J\'onsson absorption and cube term blockers. As an application we show that it is decidable whether a given subset is an absorbing subuniverse of an algebra given by the tables of its basic operations

Even Delta-Matroids and the Complexity of Planar Boolean CSPs

The main result of this paper is a generalization of the classical blossom algorithm for finding perfect matchings. Our algorithm can efficiently solve Boolean CSPs where each variable appears in exactly two constraints (we call it edge CSP) and all constraints are even $\Delta$-matroid relations (represented by lists of tuples). As a consequence of this, we settle the complexity classification of planar Boolean CSPs started by Dvorak and Kupec. Using a reduction to even $\Delta$-matroids, we then extend the tractability result to larger classes of $\Delta$-matroids that we call efficiently coverable. It properly includes classes that were known to be tractable before, namely co-independent, compact, local, linear and binary, with the following caveat: we represent $\Delta$-matroids by lists of tuples, while the last two use a representation by matrices. Since an $n\times n$ matrix can represent exponentially many tuples, our tractability result is not strictly stronger than the known algorithm for linear and binary $\Delta$-matroids.Comment: 33 pages, 9 figure