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One Dinur transformation preserves perfect satisfiability
Statement
Let be the fixed -symbol alphabet of Fixed-alphabet reduction with constant gap retention and let be the fixed-alphabet transformation of One fixed-alphabet Dinur transformation, defined for every integer and mapping finite -graphs to finite -graphs. For every such and every finite binary constraint graph over , including the case in which is edgeless.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Fix an integer in the transformation domain and a finite binary constraint graph over with .
is a finite binary constraint graph over , and maps an edgeless input to an edgeless output. (One fixed-alphabet Dinur transformation)
The gap-amplification step has perfect completeness: for every integer , implies , and edgeless inputs are mapped to edgeless outputs. (A complete uniform graph gap-amplification step)
For every fixed alphabet with , if and only if ; in particular the alphabet reduction is defined at the nondegenerate intermediate alphabet and preserves the value-one property in the forward direction. (Fixed-alphabet reduction with constant gap retention)
An edgeless graph has value one and unsatisfaction zero for every labeling, so the premise holds in the edgeless case. (Constraint graph and labeling value)
Proof
Given: Use the fixed and the graph with .
Assume first that . Then by [F4]. The completeness clause of [F2] applied to this input gives , and is edgeless by [F1] and [F2]. Applying the forward value-one direction of [F3] at to the graph therefore gives .
Assume now that . The identity of [F1] rewrites the goal as . The intermediate graph is a finite binary constraint graph over the alphabet supplied by [F2] and [F1].
The completeness clause of [F2] applies to the input because , so .
Apply the forward direction of [F3] with the fixed alphabet , whose size is at least two, to the graph . Since , it gives , that is, by the identity of [F1].
Step 1.1 proves the edgeless case and step 2.1 proves the case of a nonempty edge set; these two cases exhaust all finite inputs, so for the arbitrarily fixed , implies . No random sampling or selection from a varying family occurs: the two maps are deterministic and the cases are decided by whether the finite edge set is empty.
Remarks
This is the completeness half of Dinur's transformation: a satisfying labeling survives the degree reduction, the powering and the alphabet reduction, because each stage has an explicit extension or lift of satisfying labelings. The present lemma composes the published completeness clauses of A complete uniform graph gap-amplification step and Fixed-alphabet reduction with constant gap retention rather than reproving them, and records the edgeless branch separately so that the value convention is used only where it is needed.
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Sources
- Irit Dinur, The PCP Theorem by Gap Amplification, §1.3, Theorems 1.2 and 1.5 (completeness direction), printed pp. 5–8 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Sanjeev Arora and Boaz Barak, Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach, §18.5.1 Lemma 18.29 (completeness), printed pp. 371–373 (standard reference, not scraped)