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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.12

A Complete Dichotomy for Complex-Valued Holant^c

Authors: Miriam Backens

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 107, 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018)

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Holant problems are a family of counting problems on graphs, parametrised by sets of complex-valued functions of Boolean inputs. Holant^c denotes a subfamily of those problems, where any function set considered must contain the two unary functions pinning inputs to values 0 or 1. The complexity classification of Holant problems usually takes the form of dichotomy theorems, showing that for any set of functions in the family, the problem is either #P-hard or it can be solved in polynomial time. Previous such results include a dichotomy for real-valued Holant^c and one for Holant^c with complex symmetric functions, i.e. functions which only depend on the Hamming weight of the input. Here, we derive a dichotomy theorem for Holant^c with complex-valued, not necessarily symmetric functions. The tractable cases are the complex-valued generalisations of the tractable cases of the real-valued Holant^c dichotomy. The proof uses results from quantum information theory, particularly about entanglement. This full dichotomy for Holant^c answers a question that has been open for almost a decade.

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Miriam Backens. A Complete Dichotomy for Complex-Valued Holant^c. In 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 107, pp. 12:1-12:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{backens:LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.12,
  author =	{Backens, Miriam},
  title =	{{A Complete Dichotomy for Complex-Valued Holant^c}},
  booktitle =	{45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-076-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{107},
  editor =	{Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Kaklamanis, Christos and Marx, D\'{a}niel and Sannella, Donald},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.12},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-90168},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: computational complexity, counting complexity, Holant problems, dichotomy, entanglement}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.16

A New Holant Dichotomy Inspired by Quantum Computation

Authors: Miriam Backens

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 80, 44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2017)

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Holant problems are a framework for the analysis of counting complexity problems on graphs. This framework is simultaneously general enough to encompass many counting problems on graphs and specific enough to allow the derivation of dichotomy results, partitioning all problems into those which are in FP and those which are #P-hard. The Holant framework is based on the theory of holographic algorithms, which was originally inspired by concepts from quantum computation, but this connection appears not to have been explored before. Here, we employ quantum information theory to explain existing results in a concise way and to derive a dichotomy for a new family of problems, which we call Holant^+. This family sits in between the known families of Holant^*, for which a full dichotomy is known, and Holant^c, for which only a restricted dichotomy is known. Using knowledge from entanglement theory -- both previously existing work and new results of our own -- we prove a full dichotomy theorem for Holant^+, which is very similar to the restricted Holant^c dichotomy and may thus be a stepping stone to a full dichotomy for that family.

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Miriam Backens. A New Holant Dichotomy Inspired by Quantum Computation. In 44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 80, pp. 16:1-16:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@InProceedings{backens:LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.16,
  author =	{Backens, Miriam},
  title =	{{A New Holant Dichotomy Inspired by Quantum Computation}},
  booktitle =	{44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2017)},
  pages =	{16:1--16:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-041-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{80},
  editor =	{Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Indyk, Piotr and Kuhn, Fabian and Muscholl, Anca},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.16},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-74383},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: computational complexity, counting complexity, Holant, dichotomy, entanglement}
}

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