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A combinatorial view of Holant problems on higher domains

Computational Complexity 2024-06-11 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

On the Boolean domain, there is a class of symmetric signatures called ``Fibonacci gates'' for which a beautiful P-time combinatorial algorithm has been designed for the corresponding Holant\operatorname{Holant} problems. In this work, I give a combinatorial view for Holant(F)\operatorname{Holant}(\mathcal{F}) problems on a domain of size 3 where F\mathcal{F} is a set of arity 3 functions with inputs taking values on the domain of size 3 and the functions share some common properties. The combinatorial view can also be extended to the domain of size 4. Specifically, I extend the definition of "Fibonacci gates" to the domain of size 3 and the domain of size 4. Moreover, I give the corresponding combinatorial algorithms.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2403.14150,
  title  = {A combinatorial view of Holant problems on higher domains},
  author = {Yin Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.14150},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Accepted to the 30th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2024)

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