SAT Solving Exam Prep

Notes for the SAT Solving oral exam (Fleury). Start with the summary, then drill into individual topic files as needed; questions.md collects oral-exam-style questions linking back into all of them.

Start here

• Fleury Summary of stuff.md — topic checklist for the exam, links out to every other file
• questions.md — oral-exam-style questions, organized by topic, linked back to the notes

Topic notes

• Encoding.md — CNF/DNF, NNF, Tseitin & Plaisted-Greenbaum transformations
• SAT_in_general.md — SAT/UNSAT, resolution, implication graph, UIP, clause minimization/shrinking
• Solvers.md — DP, DPLL, backjumping, CDCL, clause reduction, restarts, phase saving
• Implementation Details.md — watched literals, occurrence lists, trail, finding a UIP
• Decision Heuristics.md — VSIDS family, look-ahead, cut heuristic, Horn form
• Preprocessing_Inprocessing.md — BVE/BVA, subsumption, sweeping, symmetry breaking, autarkies, blocked clauses
• Scheduling.md — arithmetic/geometric/Luby restart schedules
• Proofs.md — RUP, RAT, redundancy