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Holant problem is a general framework to study the computational complexity of counting problems. We prove a complexity dichotomy theorem for Holant problems over Boolean domain with non-negative weights. It is the first complete Holant…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Jiabao Lin , Hanpin Wang

Several computational problems in phylogenetic reconstruction can be formulated as restrictions of the following general problem: given a formula in conjunctive normal form where the literals are rooted triples, is there a rooted binary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Manuel Bodirsky , Jens K Mueller

We study the complexity of the Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem (DCSP) on a synchronous, anonymous network from a theoretical standpoint. In this setting, variables and constraints are controlled by agents which communicate with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Silvia Butti , Victor Dalmau

We study the problem HomsTo$H$ of counting, modulo 2, the homomorphisms from an input graph to a fixed undirected graph $H$. A characteristic feature of modular counting is that cancellations make wider classes of instances tractable than…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Andreas Göbel , Leslie Ann Goldberg , David Richerby

We study homomorphism problems of signed graphs from a computational point of view. A signed graph $(G,\Sigma)$ is a graph $G$ where each edge is given a sign, positive or negative; $\Sigma\subseteq E(G)$ denotes the set of negative edges.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Richard C. Brewster , Florent Foucaud , Pavol Hell , Reza Naserasr

Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is a fundamental algorithmic problem that appears in many areas of Computer Science. It can be equivalently stated as computing a homomorphism $\mbox{$\bR \rightarrow \bGamma$}$ between two relational…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Vladimir Kolmogorov , Michal Rolinek , Rustem Takhanov

Fix two non-empty loopless graphs $G$ and $H$ such that $G$ maps homomorphically to $H$. The Maximum Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem parameterised by $G$ and $H$ is the following computational problem, denoted by MaxPCSP($G$, $H$):…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tamio-Vesa Nakajima , Stanislav Živný

Given two finite abstract simplicial complexes A and B, one can define a new simplicial complex on the set of simplicial maps from A to B. After adding two technicalities, we call this complex Homsc(A, B). We prove the following dichotomy:…

General Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Sebastian Meyer

For a set F of finite tournaments, the F-free orientation problem is the problem of deciding if a given finite undirected graph can be oriented in such a way that the resulting oriented graph does not contain any member of F. Using the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Roman Feller , Michael Pinsker

This thesis explores algorithmic applications and limitations of convex relaxation hierarchies for approximating some discrete and continuous optimization problems. - We show a dichotomy of approximability of constraint satisfaction…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Mrinalkanti Ghosh

Dujmovi\'c et al (FOCS2019) recently proved that every planar graph $G$ is a subgraph of $H\boxtimes P$, where $\boxtimes$ denotes the strong graph product, $H$ is a graph of treewidth 8 and $P$ is a path. This result has found numerous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Pat Morin

Let gamma be a (not necessarily finite) structure with a finite relational signature. We prove that deciding whether a given existential positive sentence holds in gamma is in Logspace or complete for the class CSP(gamma)_NP under…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-01-13 Manuel Bodirsky , Miki Hermann , Florian Richoux

We study interactions between Skolem Arithmetic and certain classes of Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). We revisit results of Glass er et al. in the context of CSPs and settle the major open question from that paper, finding a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Christian Glasser , Peter Jonsson , Barnaby Martin

A natural strengthening of an algorithm for the (promise) constraint satisfaction problem is its singleton version: we first fix a variable to an element from its domain, then run the algorithm, and remove the element from the domain if the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Dmitriy Zhuk

After substantial progress over the last 15 years, the "algebraic CSP-dichotomy conjecture" reduces to the following: every local constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) associated with a finite idempotent algebra is tractable if and only if…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Clifford Bergman , William DeMeo

We prove a complexity dichotomy for a class of counting problems expressible as bipartite 3-regular Holant problems. For every problem of the form $\operatorname{Holant}\left(f\mid =_3 \right)$, where $f$ is any integer-valued ternary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jin-Yi Cai , Austen Z. Fan , Yin Liu

In this paper we study the complexity of counting Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) of the form #CSP($\mathcal{C}$,-), in which the goal is, given a relational structure $\mathbf{A}$ from a class $\mathcal{C}$ of structures and an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Andrei A. Bulatov , Stanislav Zivny

An NP-hard graph problem may be intractable for general graphs but it could be efficiently solvable using dynamic programming for graphs with bounded width (or depth or some other structural parameter). Dynamic programming is a well-known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Mahdi Belbasi , Martin Fürer

We thoroughly study a novel but basic combinatorial matrix completion problem: Given a binary incomplete matrix, fill in the missing entries so that every pair of rows in the resulting matrix has a Hamming distance within a specified range.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Tomohiro Koana , Vincent Froese , Rolf Niedermeier

We prove that QCSP$(\mathbb{N};x=y\rightarrow y=z)$ is PSpace-complete, settling a question open for more than ten years. This completes the complexity classification for the QCSP over equality languages as a trichotomy between Logspace,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Dmitriy Zhuk , Barnaby Martin , Michal Wrona