Complexity of counting CSP with complex weights

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DOI10.1145/2822891zbMATH Open1426.68114arXiv1111.2384OpenAlexW2626596188MaRDI QIDQ4640291FDOQ4640291


Authors: Jin-Yi Cai, Xi Chen Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 17 May 2018

Published in: Journal of the ACM (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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, then we prove that #CSP(F) is solvable in polynomial time if all three conditions are satisfied; and is #P-hard otherwise. Our complexity dichotomy generalizes a long series of important results on counting problems: (a) the problem of counting graph homomorphisms is the special case when there is a single symmetric binary function in F; (b) the problem of counting directed graph homomorphisms is the special case when there is a single not-necessarily-symmetric binary function in F; and (c) the standard form of #CSP is when all functions in F take values in {0,1}.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2384




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