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We develop a heuristic graph coloring approximation algorithm that uses the D-Wave 2X as an independent set sampler and evaluate its performance against a fully classical implementation. A randomly generated set of small but hard graph…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 Julia Kwok , Kristen Pudenz

A graph homomorphism between two graphs is a map from the vertex set of one graph to the vertex set of the other graph, that maps edges to edges. In this note we study the range of a uniformly chosen homomorphism from a graph G to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-06-21 Itai Benjamini , Ariel Yadin , Amir Yehudayoff

Graph theory is important in information theory. We introduce a quantization process on graphs and apply the quantized graphs in quantum information. The quon language provides a mathematical theory to study such quantized graphs in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Zhengwei Liu

We classify instances of quantum pseudo-telepathy in the graph isomorphism game, exploiting the recently discovered connection between quantum information and the theory of quantum automorphism groups. Specifically, we show that graphs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Benjamin Musto , David Reutter , Dominic Verdon

In quantum information, nonlocal games are particularly useful for differentiating classical, quantum, and non-signalling correlations. An example of differentiation is given by the principle of no-collapse of communication complexity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Pierre Botteron , Moritz Weber

Graph Isomorphism is such an important problem in computer science, that it has been widely studied over the last decades. It is well known that it belongs to NP class, but is not NP-complete. It is thought to be of comparable difficulty to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Hernán I. de la Cruz , Fernando L. Pelayo , Vicente Pascual , Jose J. Paulet , Fernando Cuartero , Luis Llana , Mauro Mezzini

Correlations in Bell and noncontextuality inequalities can be expressed as a positive linear combination of probabilities of events. Exclusive events can be represented as adjacent vertices of a graph, so correlations can be associated to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-30 Adan Cabello , Simone Severini , Andreas Winter

Man\v{c}inska and Roberson [FOCS'20] showed that two graphs are quantum isomorphic if and only if they admit the same number of homomorphisms from any planar graph. Atserias et al. [JCTB'19] proved that quantum isomorphism is undecidable in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Prem Nigam Kar , David E. Roberson , Tim Seppelt , Peter Zeman

We formulate a notion of the quantum automorphism group of a $2$-graph. After some preliminary computations, we define quantum isomorphism between a pair of $2$-graphs. We produce a `non-trivial' example of a pair of $2$-graphs that are not…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Soumalya Joardar , Atibur Rahaman , Jitender Sharma

Graph coloring problems are a central topic of study in the theory of algorithms. We study the problem of partially coloring partially colorable graphs. For $\alpha \leq 1$ and $k \in \mathbb{Z}^+$, we say that a graph $G=(V,E)$ is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Suprovat Ghoshal , Anand Louis , Rahul Raychaudhury

In this paper, we relate a beautiful theory by Lov\'asz with a popular heuristic algorithm for the graph isomorphism problem, namely the color refinement algorithm and its k-dimensional generalization known as the Weisfeiler-Leman…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Holger Dell , Martin Grohe , Gaurav Rattan

We propose a novel variational method for solving the sub-graph isomorphism problem on a gate-based quantum computer. The method relies (1) on a new representation of the adjacency matrices of the underlying graphs, which requires a number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-05 Nicola Mariella , Andrea Simonetto

We examine ordered graphs, defined as graphs with linearly ordered vertices, from the perspective of homomorphisms (and colorings) and their complexities. We demonstrate the corresponding computational and parameterized complexities, along…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Michal Čertík , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Jaroslav Nešetřil , Paweł Rzążewski

We propose a local transformation on bicolored graphs, which we call local homophily, inspired by adaptive networks and based on majority dynamics and homophily. In this transformation, a vertex updates its color to match the majority of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Pablo Concha-Vega

We propose a novel method using a quantum annealer -- an analog quantum computer based on the principles of quantum adiabatic evolution -- to solve the Graph Isomorphism problem, in which one has to determine whether two graphs are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Itay Hen , A. P. Young

A signed graph is a graph together with an assignment of signs to the edges. A closed walk in a signed graph is said to be positive (negative) if it has an even (odd) number of negative edges, counting repetition. Recognizing the signs of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Reza Naserasr , Eric Sopena , Thomas Zaslavsky

We develop the theory of quantum (a.k.a. noncommutative) relations and quantum (a.k.a. noncommutative) graphs in the finite-dimensional covariant setting, where all systems (finite-dimensional $C^*$-algebras) carry an action of a compact…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Dominic Verdon

Lov\'{a}sz proved that two graphs $G$ and $H$ are isomorphic if $\hom(K,G) = \hom(K,H)$ for all graphs $K$, where $\hom(G_1,G_2)$ denotes the number of homomorphisms from $G_1$ to $G_2$. Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k showed that it suffices to count…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Andrea Jiménez , Benjamin Moore , Daniel A. Quiroz , Youngho Yoo

We introduce the partition function of edge-colored graph homomorphisms, of which the usual partition function of graph homomorphisms is a specialization, and present an efficient algorithm to approximate it in a certain domain. Corollaries…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-05 Alexander Barvinok , Pablo Soberón

Recently, the work on quantum automorphism groups of graphs has seen renewed progress, which we expand in this paper. Quantum symmetry is a richer notion of symmetry than the classical symmetries of a graph. In general, it is non-trivial to…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Julien Schanz