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Holographic algorithms introduced by Valiant are composed of two ingredients: matchgates, which are gadgets realizing local constraint functions by weighted planar perfect matchings, and holographic reductions, which show equivalences among…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Jin-Yi Cai , Heng Guo , Tyson Williams

We give a complexity dichotomy theorem for the counting Constraint Satisfaction Problem (#CSP in short) with complex weights. To this end, we give three conditions for its tractability. Let F be any finite set of complex-valued functions,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Jin-Yi Cai , Xi Chen

We investigate the complexity of parameterised holant problems p-$\mathrm{Holant}(\mathcal{S})$ for families of signatures $\mathcal{S}$. The parameterised holant framework was introduced by Curticapean in 2015 as a counter-part to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Panagiotis Aivasiliotis , Andreas Göbel , Marc Roth , Johannes Schmitt

We prove a complexity classification theorem that classifies all counting constraint satisfaction problems ($\#$CSP) over Boolean variables into exactly three categories: (1) Polynomial-time tractable; (2) $\#$P-hard for general instances,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-03-24 Jin-yi Cai , Zhiguo Fu

The complexity of graph homomorphisms has been a subject of intense study [11, 12, 4, 42, 21, 17, 6, 20]. The partition function $Z_{\mathbf A}(\cdot)$ of graph homomorphism is defined by a symmetric matrix $\mathbf A$ over $\mathbb C$. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Jin-Yi Cai , Artem Govorov

Partition functions, also known as homomorphism functions, form a rich family of graph invariants that contain combinatorial invariants such as the number of k-colourings or the number of independent sets of a graph and also the partition…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-05-05 Leslie Ann Goldberg , Martin Grohe , Mark Jerrum , Marc Thurley

We show for a broad class of counting problems, correlation decay (strong spatial mixing) implies FPTAS on planar graphs. The framework for the counting problems considered by us is the Holant problems with arbitrary constant-size domain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Yitong Yin , Chihao Zhang

The theory of holographic algorithms introduced by Valiant represents a novel approach to achieving polynomial-time algorithms for seemingly intractable counting problems via a reduction to counting planar perfect matchings and a linear…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Sitan Chen

We determine the computational complexity of approximately counting the total weight of variable assignments for every complex-weighted Boolean constraint satisfaction problem (or CSP) with any number of additional unary (i.e., arity 1)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Tomoyuki Yamakami

We prove that P = NP implies #P = FP by exploiting the topological structure of 3SAT solution spaces. The argument proceeds via a dichotomy: any polynomial-time algorithm for 3SAT either operates without global knowledge of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-24 M. Alasli

The Holant theorem is a powerful tool for studying the computational complexity of counting problems in the Holant framework. Due to the great expressiveness of the Holant framework, a converse to the Holant theorem would itself be a very…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Ben Young

We prove a complexity dichotomy theorem for all non-negative weighted counting Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP). This caps a long series of important results on counting problems including unweighted and weighted graph homomorphisms…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-12-30 Jin-Yi Cai , Xi Chen , Pinyan Lu

As one of the three main pillars of fine-grained complexity theory, the 3SUM problem explains the hardness of many diverse polynomial-time problems via fine-grained reductions. Many of these reductions are either directly based on or…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Nick Fischer , Piotr Kaliciak , Adam Polak

We prove a complexity dichotomy theorem for symmetric complex-weighted Boolean #CSP when the constraint graph of the input must be planar. The problems that are #P-hard over general graphs but tractable over planar graphs are precisely…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-08-07 Heng Guo , Tyson Williams

We present fully polynomial-time (deterministic or randomised) approximation schemes for Holant problems, defined by a non-negative constraint function satisfying a generalised second order recurrence modulo a couple of exceptional cases.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Heng Guo , Chao Liao , Pinyan Lu , Chihao Zhang

In the present paper we show a dichotomy theorem for the complexity of polynomial evaluation. We associate to each graph H a polynomial that encodes all graphs of a fixed size homomorphic to H. We show that this family is computable by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-10-30 Nicolas de Rugy-Altherre

The Dichotomy Conjecture for constraint satisfaction problems has been verified for conservative problems (or, equivalently, for list homomorphism problems) by Andrei Bulatov. An earlier case of this dichotomy, for list homomorphisms to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-04-21 Pavol Hell , Arash Rafiey

The complexity classification of the Holant problem has remained unresolved for the past fifteen years. Counting complex-weighted Eulerian orientation problems, denoted as #EO, is regarded as one of the most significant challenges to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Boning Meng , Juqiu Wang , Mingji Xia

We consider the complexity of counting homomorphisms from an $r$-uniform hypergraph $G$ to a symmetric $r$-ary relation $H$. We give a dichotomy theorem for $r>2$, showing for which $H$ this problem is in FP and for which $H$ it is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-01-04 Martin Dyer , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Mark Jerrum

Fibonacci gate problems have severed as computation primitives to solve other problems by holographic algorithm and play an important role in the dichotomy of exact counting for Holant and CSP frameworks. We generalize them to weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Pinyan Lu , Menghui Wang , Chihao Zhang