The tractability conjecture for reducts of finitely bounded homogeneous structures

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Let A{\mathbb A} be a reduct of a finitely bounded homogeneous structure: it is obtained by forgetting some relations from a homogeneous structure, and the ambient structure is characterized among finite structures by forbidding embeddings of a finite set of finite structures. Let K3{\mathbb K}_3 denote the complete graph on three vertices, and let CSP⁡(A)\operatorname{CSP}({\mathbb A}) be the problem of deciding whether a finite input structure admits a homomorphism to A{\mathbb A}.

The tractability conjecture. If A{\mathbb A} does not pp-construct K3{\mathbb K}_3, then CSP⁡(A)\operatorname{CSP}({\mathbb A}) is polynomial-time solvable.

This is described as a wide-open generalization of the Feder–Vardi conjecture to reducts of finitely bounded homogeneous structures and is the subject of an active research program.

References

Primary source

Santiago Guzmán-Pro and Barnaby Martin, “Restricted CSPs and F-free Digraph Algorithmics”, arXiv:2502.17596 (2025).

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