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On propositional coding techniques for the distinguishability of objects in finite sets. (Russian. English summary) Zbl 1425.94047
Summary: In the paper we describe a new propositional encoding procedure for the property that all objects comprising some finite set are distinct. For the considered class of combinatorial problems it is sufficient to represent the elements of such set by their natural numbers. Thus, there is a problem of constructing a satisfiable Boolean formula, the satisfying assignments of which encode the first $$n$$ natural numbers without taking into account their order. The necessity to encode such sets into Boolean logic is motivated by the desire to apply to the corresponding combinatorial problems the state-of-the-art algorithms for solving the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT). In the paper we propose the new approach to defining the Boolean formula for the characteristic function of the predicate which takes the value of True only on the sets of binary words encoding the numbers from 0 to $$n-1$$. The corresponding predicate was named OtO (from One-to-One). The propositional encoding of the OtO-predicate has a better lower bound compared to the propositional encoding of a relatively similar predicate known as OOC-predicate (from Only One Cardinality). The proposed OtO-predicate is used to reduce to SAT a number of problems related to Latin squares. In particular, using the OtO-predicate we constructed the SAT encodings for the problems of finding orthogonal pairs and quasi-orthogonal triples of Latin squares of order 10. We used the multi-threaded SAT solvers and the resources of a computing cluster to solve these problems.
##### MSC:
 94A60 Cryptography 94C10 Switching theory, application of Boolean algebra; Boolean functions (MSC2010) 05B15 Orthogonal arrays, Latin squares, Room squares 68R05 Combinatorics in computer science
##### Software:
Lingeling; Plingeling; Splatz; Treengeling; YalSAT
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