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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2025.23

From an Odd Arity Signature to a Holant Dichotomy

Authors: Boning Meng, Juqiu Wang, Mingji Xia, and Jiayi Zheng

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 339, 40th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2025)

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Holant is an essential framework in the field of counting complexity. For over fifteen years, researchers have been clarifying the complexity classification for complex-valued Holant on Boolean domain, a challenge that remains unresolved. In this article, we prove a complexity dichotomy for complex-valued Holant on Boolean domain when a non-trivial signature of odd arity exists. This dichotomy is based on the dichotomy for #EO, and consequently is an FP^NP vs. #P dichotomy as well, stating that each problem is either in FP^NP or #P-hard. Furthermore, we establish a generalized version of the decomposition lemma for complex-valued Holant on Boolean domain. It asserts that each signature can be derived from its tensor product with other signatures, or conversely, the problem itself is in FP^NP. We believe that this result is a powerful method for building reductions in complex-valued Holant, as it is also employed as a pivotal technique in the proof of the aforementioned dichotomy in this article.

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Boning Meng, Juqiu Wang, Mingji Xia, and Jiayi Zheng. From an Odd Arity Signature to a Holant Dichotomy. In 40th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 339, pp. 23:1-23:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{meng_et_al:LIPIcs.CCC.2025.23,
  author =	{Meng, Boning and Wang, Juqiu and Xia, Mingji and Zheng, Jiayi},
  title =	{{From an Odd Arity Signature to a Holant Dichotomy}},
  booktitle =	{40th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2025)},
  pages =	{23:1--23:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-379-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{339},
  editor =	{Srinivasan, Srikanth},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2025.23},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-237177},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2025.23},
  annote =	{Keywords: Complexity dichotomy, Counting, Holant problem, #P}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.118

P-Time Algorithms for Typical #EO Problems

Authors: Boning Meng, Juqiu Wang, and Mingji Xia

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 334, 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)

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In this article, we study the computational complexity of counting weighted Eulerian orientations, denoted as #EO. This problem is considered a pivotal scenario in the complexity classification for Holant, a counting framework of great significance. Our results consist of three parts. First, we prove a complexity dichotomy theorem for #EO defined by a set of binary and quaternary signatures, which generalizes the previous dichotomy for the six-vertex model. Second, we prove a dichotomy for #EO defined by a set of so-called pure signatures, which possess the closure property under gadget construction. Finally, we present a polynomial-time algorithm for #EO defined by specific rebalancing signatures, which extends the algorithm for pure signatures to a broader range of problems, including #EO defined by non-pure signatures such as f_40. We also construct a signature f_56 that is not rebalancing, and whether #EO(f_56) is computable in polynomial time remains open.

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Boning Meng, Juqiu Wang, and Mingji Xia. P-Time Algorithms for Typical #EO Problems. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 118:1-118:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{meng_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.118,
  author =	{Meng, Boning and Wang, Juqiu and Xia, Mingji},
  title =	{{P-Time Algorithms for Typical #EO Problems}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{118:1--118:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-372-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{334},
  editor =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Grandoni, Fabrizio and Ouaknine, Jo\"{e}l and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.118},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-234953},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.118},
  annote =	{Keywords: Counting complexity, Eulerian orientation, Holant, #P-hardness, Dichotomy theorem}
}

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