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On Planar Boolean CSP

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We give a partial classification of the complexity of Planar Boolean CSP, including a complete dichotomy for templates containing only relations of arity at most \(5\).

Z. Dvořák—Supported by project GA14-19503S (Graph coloring and structure) of Czech Science Foundation.

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Dvořák, Z., Kupec, M. (2015). On Planar Boolean CSP. In: Halldórsson, M., Iwama, K., Kobayashi, N., Speckmann, B. (eds) Automata, Languages, and Programming. ICALP 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9134. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47672-7_35

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