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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…

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The problem Cover(H) asks whether an input graph G covers a fixed graph H (i.e., whether there exists a homomorphism G to H which locally preserves the structure of the graphs). Complexity of this problem has been intensively studied. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-20 Ondřej Bílka , Jozef Jirásek , Pavel Klavík , Martin Tancer , Jan Volec

Given a group G, the conjugacy problem in G is the problem of giving an effective procedure for determining whether or not two given elements f, g of G are conjugate, i.e. whether there exists h belonging to G with fh = hg. This paper is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-02-11 Anthony G. O'Farrell , Maria Roginskaya

The computational cost of simulating quantum many-body systems can often be reduced by taking advantage of physical symmetries. While methods exist for specific symmetry classes, a general algorithm to find the full permutation symmetry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Saumya Shah , Patrick Rebentrost

The Surjective H-Colouring problem is to test if a given graph allows a vertex-surjective homomorphism to a fixed graph H. The complexity of this problem has been well studied for undirected (partially) reflexive graphs. We introduce…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Benoit Larose , Barnaby Martin , Daniel Paulusma

We provide a new proof of a theorem of Hell and Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il [J. Comb. Theory B, 48(1):92-110, 1990] using tools from topological combinatorics based on ideas of Lov\'asz [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A, 25(3):319-324, 1978]. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sebastian Meyer , Jakub Opršal

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

The Graph Isomorphism problem has both theoretical and practical interest. In this paper we present an algorithm, called conauto-1.2, that efficiently tests whether two graphs are isomorphic, and finds an isomorphism if they are. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-06-23 Jose Luis Lopez-Presa , Antonio Fernandez Anta

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

Counting problems in general and counting graph homomorphisms in particular have numerous applications in combinatorics, computer science, statistical physics, and elsewhere. One of the most well studied problems in this area is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Amirhossein Kazeminia , Andrei A. Bulatov

The graph isomorphism problem looks deceptively simple, but although polynomial-time algorithms exist for certain types of graphs such as planar graphs and graphs with bounded degree or eigenvalue multiplicity, its complexity class is still…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Stefan Klus , Patrick Gelß

A classical result by Lov\'asz asserts that two graphs $G$ and $H$ are isomorphic if and only if they have the same left profile, that is, for every graph $F$, the number of homomorphisms from $F$ to $G$ coincides with the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Albert Atserias , Phokion G. Kolaitis , Wei-Lin Wu

We give a simple proof of a generalization of an inequality for homomorphism counts by Sidorenko (1994). A special case of our inequality says that if $d_v$ denotes the degree of a vertex $v$ in a graph $G$ and $\textrm{Hom}_\Delta(H, G)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Svante Janson , Valentas Kurauskas

We study the two inference problems of detecting and recovering an isolated community of \emph{general} structure planted in a random graph. The detection problem is formalized as a hypothesis testing problem, where under the null…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Wasim Huleihel

Counting homomorphisms of a constant sized pattern graph $H$ in an input graph $G$ is a fundamental computational problem. There is a rich history of studying the complexity of this problem, under various constraints on the input $G$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Suman K. Bera , Noujan Pashanasangi , C. Seshadhri

The neighborhood complex of a graph was introduced by Lov\'asz to provide topological lower bounds on chromatic number. More general homomorphism complexes of graphs were further studied by Babson and Kozlov. Such `Hom complexes' are also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Anton Dochtermann , Anurag Singh

In this paper we design {\sf FPT}-algorithms for two parameterized problems. The first is \textsc{List Digraph Homomorphism}: given two digraphs $G$ and $H$ and a list of allowed vertices of $H$ for every vertex of $G$, the question is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Eunjung Kim , Christophe Paul , Ignasi Sau , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

A homomorphism from a graph $G$ to a graph $H$ is an edge-preserving mapping from $V(G)$ to $V(H)$. In the graph homomorphism problem, denoted by $Hom(H)$, the graph $H$ is fixed and we need to determine if there exists a homomorphism from…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Carla Groenland , Isja Mannens , Jesper Nederlof , Marta Piecyk , Paweł Rzążewski

Let H be a graph, and let C_H(G) be the number of (subgraph isomorphic) copies of H contained in a graph G. We investigate the fundamental problem of estimating C_H(G). Previous results cover only a few specific instances of this general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Martin Furer , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan

We provide a deterministic polynomial-time algorithm that, for a given $k$-uniform hypergraph $H$ with $n$ vertices and edge density $d$, finds a complete $k$-partite subgraph of $H$ with parts of size at least ${c(d, k)(\log…

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