@InProceedings{galanis_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.63, author = {Galanis, Andreas and \v{S}tefankovi\v{c}, Daniel and Vigoda, Eric}, title = {{Approximating Observables Is as Hard as Counting}}, booktitle = {49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022)}, pages = {63:1--63:18}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-235-8}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2022}, volume = {229}, editor = {Boja\'{n}czyk, Miko{\l}aj and Merelli, Emanuela and Woodruff, David P.}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.63}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-164047}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.63}, annote = {Keywords: Approximate Counting, Averages, Phase Transitions, Random Structures} }