The complexity of the counting constraint satisfaction problem

  • Authors:
  • Andrei A. Bulatov

  • Affiliations:
  • Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The Counting Constraint Satisfaction Problem (#CSP(H)) over a finite relational structure H can be expressed as follows: given a relational structure G over the same vocabulary, determine the number of homomorphisms from G to H. In this article we characterize relational structures H for which (#CSP(H) can be solved in polynomial time and prove that for all other structures the problem is #P-complete.