
arXiv: 2201.05218
Given polynomials f 0 , f 1 , …, f k the Ideal Membership Problem, IMP for short, asks if f 0 belongs to the ideal generated by f 1 , …, f k . In the search version of this problem, the task is to find a proof of this fact. The IMP is a well-known fundamental problem with numerous applications. For instance, it underlies many proof systems based on polynomials such as Nullstellensatz, Polynomial Calculus, and Sum-of-Squares. Although the IMP is in general intractable, in many important cases it can be efficiently solved. Mastrolilli [SODA’19] initiated a systematic study of IMPs for ideals arising from Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs), parameterized by constraint languages, denoted IMP(Γ). The ultimate goal of this line of research is to classify all such IMPs accordingly to their complexity. Mastrolilli achieved this goal for IMPs arising from CSP(Γ) where Γ is a Boolean constraint language, while Bulatov and Rafiey [STOC’22] advanced these results to several cases of CSPs over finite domains. In this article, we consider IMPs arising from CSPs over “affine” constraint languages, in which constraints are subgroups (or their cosets) of direct products of Abelian groups. This kind of CSPs include systems of linear equations and are considered one of the most important types of tractable CSPs. Some special cases of the problem have been considered before by Bharathi and Mastrolilli [MFCS’21] for linear equations modulo 2, and by Bulatov and Rafiey [STOC’22] for systems of linear equations over GF ( p ), p prime. Here, we prove that if Γ is an affine constraint language then IMP(Γ) is solvable in polynomial time assuming the input polynomial has bounded degree.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computational Complexity, Data Structures and Algorithms, Commutative Algebra, Logic in Computer Science, Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Computational Complexity (cs.CC), Commutative Algebra (math.AC), 510, 004, Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO), FOS: Mathematics, Polynomial Ideal Membership, Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS), Abelian Groups, Polymorphisms, Gröbner Bases, Algebraic Geometry, Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computational Complexity, Data Structures and Algorithms, Commutative Algebra, Logic in Computer Science, Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Computational Complexity (cs.CC), Commutative Algebra (math.AC), 510, 004, Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO), FOS: Mathematics, Polynomial Ideal Membership, Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS), Abelian Groups, Polymorphisms, Gröbner Bases, Algebraic Geometry, Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
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