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--CSP where 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}
}