Knot Mosaics README

Intro

Encode knot mosaics as a SAT formula and solve with a SAT solver.

Files

• ./encode.py : Encode knot mosaics as a SAT formula.
• ./solve.py : Get all solutions of a knot mosaic SAT formula with PySAT bindings [1,2].

Other

As of September 2022, for solving boards larger than 4x4, the best solver that we have found is Toda’s BDD-based ALLSAT solver [3].

My publications

• H. Miller, “Enumerating Nontrivial Knot Mosaics with SAT (Student Abstract)”, AAAI, vol. 36, no. 11, pp. 13017-13018, Jun. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v36i11.21645

References

[1] https://pysathq.github.io/

[2] https://github.com/pysathq/pysat

[3] https://www.disc.lab.uec.ac.jp/toda/code/allsat.html