Guest column: complexity dichotomies of counting problems

  • Authors:
  • X. Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Columbia University, NY

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGACT News
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The complexity of counting problems has been studied intensively over the years. During the past decade, significant progress has taken place and a series of successively more powerful complexity dichotomies have been discovered. Given a class of counting problems, a dichotomy states that every problem in the class is either in polynomial time or #P-hard. In this guest column, we briefly survey two threads of recent developments in counting graph homomorphisms and the counting constraint satisfaction problem.