Bodirsky–Pinsker CSP dichotomy conjecture for reducts of finitely bounded homogeneous structures

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Let LL be a finite relational language, let \strM\str M be an LL-structure, and let a first-order reduct of a structure mean a structure whose relations are first-order definable in that structure. A homogeneous structure is one in which every isomorphism between finite substructures extends to an automorphism, and it is finitely bounded when its age is defined by forbidding finitely many finite structures. The constraint satisfaction problem CSP(\strM)\operatorname{CSP}(\str M) asks, for a finite LL-structure \strA\str A, whether there is a homomorphism \strA\strM\str A\to\str M.

Bodirsky–Pinsker conjecture. If \strM\str M is a first-order reduct of a finitely bounded homogeneous structure in a finite relational language, then either CSP(\strM)\operatorname{CSP}(\str M) is solvable in polynomial time or it is NP-complete.

This conjecture extends the finite CSP dichotomy theorem to the indicated class of infinite structures. The source says that it has been verified in several concrete instances, but remains unresolved in general.

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Primary source

Jan Hubička and Matěj Konečný, “Twenty years of Nešetřil's classification programme of Ramsey classes”, arXiv:2501.17293 (2025).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2301.12977, arXiv:1901.04237, arXiv:1602.04353.

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