3-dimensional matching: definition #
3-DIMENSIONAL MATCHING (Karp 1972): given three marked classes and a set of triples, one element from each class, is there a set of triples covering every marked element exactly once?
The vocabulary FirstOrder.Language.tripleSys carries three unary marks
xEl, yEl, zEl and one ternary relation trip. A yes-instance is one
admitting a matching (DescriptiveComplexity.IsMatchingOn): a sub-relation of
trip, inside the three classes, that covers each marked element exactly
once. Nothing asks the three classes to be disjoint or to exhaust the
universe: elements outside them ride along, and the reduction of
DescriptiveComplexity.Problems.ThreeDimMatching.Hardness produces disjoint ones
anyway.
Perfect matchings force the three classes to have the same size, which is why the problem is the tripartite form of Exact Cover with sets of size three, and why it is the natural source of the exact-cover family.
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The relation symbols of the language.
- xEl : tripleSysRel 1
xEl a:abelongs to the first class. - yEl : tripleSysRel 1
yEl a:abelongs to the second class. - zEl : tripleSysRel 1
zEl a:abelongs to the third class. - trip : tripleSysRel 3
trip a b c:(a, b, c)is one of the available triples.
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The relational language of triple systems: three marked classes and a ternary relation.
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- FirstOrder.Language.tripleSys = { Functions := fun (x : ℕ) => Empty, Relations := FirstOrder.Language.tripleSysRel }
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The shorthands of the vocabulary #
xEl a: a belongs to the first class.
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yEl a: a belongs to the second class.
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zEl a: a belongs to the third class.
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trip a b c: (a, b, c) is one of the available triples.
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Matchings #
A matching: a set of triples, taken from T and lying in the three
classes, covering every marked element exactly once.
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The problem #
A triple system is a yes-instance when some subset of its triples covers each marked element exactly once.
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Having a 3-dimensional matching is isomorphism-invariant.
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3-DIMENSIONAL MATCHING, as a problem on triple systems: do some of the triples cover every marked element exactly once?
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