The complexity of planar boolean #CSP with complex weights

  • Authors:
  • Heng Guo;Tyson Williams

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI;University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

  • Venue:
  • ICALP'13 Proceedings of the 40th international conference on Automata, Languages, and Programming - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We prove a complexity dichotomy theorem for symmetric complex-weighted Boolean #CSP when the constraint graph of the input must be planar. The problems that are #P-hard over general graphs but tractable over planar graphs are precisely those with a holographic reduction to matchgates. This generalizes a theorem of Cai, Lu, and Xia for the case of real weights. We also obtain a dichotomy theorem for a symmetric arity 4 signature with complex weights in the planar Holant framework, which we use in the proof of our #CSP dichotomy. In particular, we reduce the problem of evaluating the Tutte polynomial of a planar graph at the point (3,3) to counting the number of Eulerian orientations over planar 4-regular graphs to show the latter is #P-hard. This strengthens a theorem by Huang and Lu to the planar setting.