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examples/notebook/contrib/costas_array.ipynb

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costas_array

<table align="left"> <td> <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/github/google/or-tools/blob/main/examples/notebook/contrib/costas_array.ipynb">Run in Google Colab</a> </td> <td> <a href="https://github.com/google/or-tools/blob/main/examples/contrib/costas_array.py">View source on GitHub</a> </td> </table>

First, you must install ortools package in this colab.

python
%pip install ortools

Costas array in Google CP Solver.

From http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CostasArray.html: ''' An order-n Costas array is a permutation on {1,...,n} such that the distances in each row of the triangular difference table are distinct. For example, the permutation {1,3,4,2,5} has triangular difference table {2,1,-2,3}, {3,-1,1}, {1,2}, and {4}. Since each row contains no duplications, the permutation is therefore a Costas array. '''

Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costas_array

About this model: This model is based on Barry O'Sullivan's model: http://www.g12.cs.mu.oz.au/mzn/costas_array/CostasArray.mzn

and my small changes in http://hakank.org/minizinc/costas_array.mzn

Since there is no symmetry breaking of the order of the Costas array it gives all the solutions for a specific length of the array, e.g. those listed in http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CostasArray.html

1 1 (1) 2 2 (1, 2), (2,1) 3 4 (1, 3, 2), (2, 1, 3), (2, 3, 1), (3, 1, 2) 4 12 (1, 2, 4, 3), (1, 3, 4, 2), (1, 4, 2, 3), (2, 1, 3, 4), (2, 3, 1, 4), (2, 4, 3, 1), (3, 1, 2, 4), (3, 2, 4, 1), (3, 4, 2, 1), (4, 1, 3, 2), (4, 2, 1, 3), (4, 3, 1, 2) ....

See http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/A008404 for the number of solutions for n=1.. 1, 2, 4, 12, 40, 116, 200, 444, 760, 2160, 4368, 7852, 12828, 17252, 19612, 21104, 18276, 15096, 10240, 6464, 3536, 2052, 872, 200, 88, 56, 204,...

This model was created by Hakan Kjellerstrand ([email protected]) Also see my other Google CP Solver models: http://www.hakank.org/google_or_tools/

python
import sys

from ortools.constraint_solver import pywrapcp


def main(n=6):

  # Create the solver.
  solver = pywrapcp.Solver("Costas array")

  #
  # data
  #
  print("n:", n)

  #
  # declare variables
  #
  costas = [solver.IntVar(1, n, "costas[%i]" % i) for i in range(n)]
  differences = {}
  for i in range(n):
    for j in range(n):
      differences[(i, j)] = solver.IntVar(-n + 1, n - 1,
                                          "differences[%i,%i]" % (i, j))
  differences_flat = [differences[i, j] for i in range(n) for j in range(n)]

  #
  # constraints
  #

  # Fix the values in the lower triangle in the
  # difference matrix to -n+1. This removes variants
  # of the difference matrix for the same Costas array.
  for i in range(n):
    for j in range(i + 1):
      solver.Add(differences[i, j] == -n + 1)

  # hakank: All the following constraints are from
  # Barry O'Sullivans's original model.
  #
  solver.Add(solver.AllDifferent(costas))

  # "How do the positions in the Costas array relate
  #  to the elements of the distance triangle."
  for i in range(n):
    for j in range(n):
      if i < j:
        solver.Add(differences[(i, j)] == costas[j] - costas[j - i - 1])

  # "All entries in a particular row of the difference
  #  triangle must be distint."
  for i in range(n - 2):
    solver.Add(
        solver.AllDifferent([differences[i, j] for j in range(n) if j > i]))

  #
  # "All the following are redundant - only here to speed up search."
  #

  # "We can never place a 'token' in the same row as any other."
  for i in range(n):
    for j in range(n):
      if i < j:
        solver.Add(differences[i, j] != 0)

  for k in range(2, n):
    for l in range(2, n):
      if k < l:
        solver.Add(differences[k - 2, l - 1] + differences[k, l] ==
                   differences[k - 1, l - 1] + differences[k - 1, l])

  #
  # search and result
  #
  db = solver.Phase(costas + differences_flat, solver.CHOOSE_FIRST_UNBOUND,
                    solver.ASSIGN_MIN_VALUE)

  solver.NewSearch(db)
  num_solutions = 0
  while solver.NextSolution():
    print("costas:", [costas[i].Value() for i in range(n)])
    print("differences:")
    for i in range(n):
      for j in range(n):
        v = differences[i, j].Value()
        if v == -n + 1:
          print("  ", end=" ")
        else:
          print("%2d" % v, end=" ")
      print()
    print()
    num_solutions += 1

  solver.EndSearch()

  print()
  print("num_solutions:", num_solutions)
  print("failures:", solver.Failures())
  print("branches:", solver.Branches())
  print("WallTime:", solver.WallTime())


n = 6
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
  n = int(sys.argv[1])
main(n)