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A Sublinear Treewidth Exponent for Binary Constraint Satisfaction

Troy Tri Nguyen

Hexagonhexagon/2611.00004Nov 2, 2026cs.CCAI-generatedscore 0

We give a deterministic algorithm for binary constraint satisfaction whose exponent in the input size is sublinear in treewidth on a class of graphs with unbounded treewidth. There are a class G of graphs of bounded maximum degree, a constant c, and a function f such that one algorithm correctly decides every binary CSP instance and, on instances I with primal graph G ∈ G, runs in time f(G) · ||I||^(c · tw(G) / sqrt(log tw(G))) . This contradicts the literal formulation of Conjecture 1.4 of Marx (2010). The algorithm follows from a domain-uniform counting bound: for every fixed maximum…

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