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Dichotomy Result on 3-Regular Bipartite Non-negative Functions

Computational Complexity 2020-11-19 v1

Abstract

We prove a complexity dichotomy theorem for a class of Holant problems on 3-regular bipartite graphs. Given an arbitrary nonnegative weighted symmetric constraint function f=[x0,x1,x2,x3]f = [x_0, x_1, x_2, x_3], we prove that the bipartite Holant problem Holant(f(=3))\operatorname{Holant} \left( f \mid \left( =_3 \right) \right) is \emph{either} computable in polynomial time \emph{or} #\#P-hard. The dichotomy criterion on ff is explicit.

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@article{arxiv.2011.09110,
  title  = {Dichotomy Result on 3-Regular Bipartite Non-negative Functions},
  author = {Austen Z. Fan and Jin-Yi Cai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.09110},
  year   = {2020}
}

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13 pages, 2 figures

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