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The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP for short) is a generalization of the well-studied Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). The PCSP has its roots in such classic problems as the Approximate Graph Coloring and the…

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Recent algorithmic advances in algebraic automata theory drew attention to semigroupoids (semicategories). These are mathematical descriptions of typed computational processes, but they have not been studied systematically in the context of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Attila Egri-Nagy , Chrystopher L. Nehaniv

The so-called algebraic approach to the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) has been a prevalent method of the study of complexity of these problems since early 2000's. The core of this approach is the notion of polymorphisms which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Maximilian Hadek , Tomáš Jakl , Jakub Opršal

In this paper, we study the geospatial ontologies that we are interested in together as a geospatial ontology system, consisting of a set of the geospatial ontologies and a set of geospatial ontology operations, without any internal details…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Xiuzhan Guo , Wei Huang , Min Luo , Priya Rangarajan

Fix a finite group $G$. We study the computational complexity of counting problems of the following flavor: given a group $\Gamma$, count the number of homomorphisms $\Gamma \to G$. Our first result establishes that this problem is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Eric Samperton , Armin Weiß

A central question in cognitive science is whether conceptual representations converge onto a shared manifold to support generalization, or diverge into orthogonal subspaces to minimize task interference. While prior work has discovered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Zhimin Hu , Lanhao Niu , Sashank Varma

Lov\'asz (1967) showed that two finite relational structures A and B are isomorphic if, and only if, the number of homomorphisms from C to A is the same as the number of homomorphisms from C to B for any finite structure C. Soon after,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Anuj Dawar , Tomáš Jakl , Luca Reggio

We study the complexity of counting (weighted) planar graph homomorphism problem $\tt{Pl\text{-}GH}(M)$ parametrized by an arbitrary symmetric non-negative real valued matrix $M$. For matrices with pairwise distinct diagonal values, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Jin-Yi Cai , Ashwin Maran , Ben Young

We consider the problem of finding a homomorphism from an input digraph $G$ to a fixed digraph $H$. We show that if $H$ admits a weak near unanimity polymorphism $\phi$ then deciding whether $G$ admits a homomorphism to $H$ (HOM($H$)) is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Tomas Feder , Jeff Kinne , Ashwin Murali , Arash Rafiey

The complexity of graph homomorphism problems has been the subject of intense study. It is a long standing open problem to give a (decidable) complexity dichotomy theorem for the partition function of directed graph homomorphisms. In this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-08-06 Jin-Yi Cai , Xi Chen

We propose to study homomorphisms of connectome graphs. Homomorphisms can be studied as sequences of elementary homomorphisms - folds, which identify pairs of vertices. Several fold types are defined. Initial computation results for some…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-12-10 Peteris Daugulis

The problem of finding graph structure of functions commuting with a given function in terms of their functional graphs is considered. Structure of functional graphs of commuting functions is described. The problem is reduced to describing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Peteris Daugulis

We consider the following problem for a fixed graph H: given a graph G and two H-colorings of G, i.e. homomorphisms from G to H, can one be transformed (reconfigured) into the other by changing one color at a time, maintaining an H-coloring…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Marcin Wrochna

The notion of homomorphism indistinguishability offers a combinatorial framework for characterizing equivalence relations of graphs, in particular equivalences in counting logics within finite model theory. That is, for certain graph…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Georg Schindling

We consider homomorphisms of signed graphs from a computational perspective. In particular, we study the list homomorphism problem seeking a homomorphism of an input signed graph $(G,\sigma)$, equipped with lists $L(v) \subseteq V(H), v \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Jan Bok , Richard Brewster , Tomás Feder , Pavol Hell , Nikola Jedličková

We consider constrained variants of graph homomorphisms such as embeddings, monomorphisms, full homomorphisms, surjective homomorpshims, and locally constrained homomorphisms. We also introduce a new variation on this theme which derives…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-23 Yangjing Long

In the branch of mathematics known as graph theory, graphs are considered as a set of points, called vertices, with connections between these points, called edges. The purpose of this paper is to study mappings between two graphs that have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Jeffrey Beyerl , Cameron Sharpe

Category theory provides a means through which many far-ranging fields of mathematics can be related by their similar structure. In a paper by Robinson [2], this interconnectivity afforded by categorical perspectives allowed for the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Karthik Boyareddygari

We provide an internal characterization of those finite algebras (i.e., algebraic structures) $\mathbf A$ such that the number of homomorphisms from any finite algebra $\mathbf X$ to $\mathbf A$ is bounded from above by a polynomial in the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Libor Barto , Antoine Mottet

One of the prime motivation for topology was Homotopy theory, which captures the general idea of a continuous transformation between two entities, which may be spaces or maps. In later decades, an algebraic formulation of topology was…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Suddhasattwa Das
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