Abstract:In this paper, we prove that the general CNF satisfiability problem can be solved in O * (1.0646 L ) time, where L is the length of the input CNF-formula (i.e., the total number of literals in the formula), which improves the current bound O * (1.0652 L ) given by Chen and Liu 12 years ago. Our algorithm is a standard branch-and-search algorithm analyzed by using the measure-and-conquer method. We avoid the bottleneck in Chen and Liu's algorithm by simplifying the branching operation for 4-degree variables and… Show more
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