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Matchgate signatures under variable permutations

Combinatorics 2025-03-28 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

In this article, we give a sufficient and necessary condition for determining whether a matchgate signature retains its property under a certain variable permutation, which can be checked in polynomial time. We also define the concept of permutable matchgate signatures, and use it to erase the gap between Pl-\#CSP and \#CSP on planar graphs in the previous study. We provide a detailed characterization of permutable matchgate signatures as well, by presenting their relation to symmetric matchgate signatures. In addition, we prove a dichotomy for Pl-#RD\#R_D-CSP where D3D\ge 3 is an integer.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2503.21194,
  title  = {Matchgate signatures under variable permutations},
  author = {Boning Meng and Yicheng Pan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.21194},
  year   = {2025}
}
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