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Unsatisfiable core

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Given an unsatisfiable boolean propositional formula in conjunctive normal form, a subset of clauses whose conjunction is still unsatisfiable is called unsatisfiable core of the original formula.

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References

  • L. Zhang and S. Malik. Extracting Small Unsatisfiable Cores from Unsatisfiable Boolean Formulas. [1]
  • N. Dershowitz, Z. Hanna, and A. Nadel. A Scalable Algorithm for Minimal Unsatisfiable Core Extraction. [2]