3SAT is the case where each clause has exactly 3 terms. EDIT (to include some information on the point of studying 3SAT): If someone gives you an assignment of values to the variables, it is very easy to check to see whether that assignment makes all the clauses true; in other words, you can efficiently check any alleged solution.

Jan 22, 2014 · For the pedantic's sake, we first have a polynomial reduction $3SAT \leq_p s3SAT$, where the later has strictly 3 terms per clause, not less (as accepted by the former). This is achieved by taking an instance of $3SAT$ and mapping the clauses respectively:

Aug 23, 2024 · $\begingroup$ The convention may differ. In the foundational paper of Karp, 3SAT is at most 3 literal per clause, but as Wikipedia note it, "Some authors restrict k-SAT to CNF formulas with exactly k literals.", and it shows how the …

Jan 30, 2016 · Note: I've also asked this question on StackOverflow here. I've been reading this article which tries and explains how the max 2 sat problem is essentially a 3-sat problem and is NP-hard.

Dec 13, 2017 · Using this translation strategy, you can add a new linear constraint to the ILP for every clause in the 3SAT problem. The two problems are now equivalent: there's an integer solution to this ILP if and only if there's a boolean solution to the original 3SAT problem. An example instance of a 3SAT decision problem:

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Apr 13, 2017 · 3-SAT is NP-Complete because SAT is - any SAT formula can be rewritten as a conjunctive statement of literal clauses with 3 literals, and the satisifiability of the new statement will be identical to that of the original formula.

Mar 10, 2018 · I tried google and this site, but I couldn't find anything which explains why this method to solve $2SAT$ in polynomial time won't work for $3SAT$. I know it can't, otherwise $3SAT$ wouldn't be NP-Complete, but I'd like to understand why.

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