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Large Systems
Counting the number of perfect matchings, and generalized decision trees
M. N. Vyalyi National Research University—Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Abstract:
We consider a generalization of the Pólya–Kasteleyn approach to counting the number of perfect matchings in a graph based on computing the symbolic Pfaffian of a directed adjacency matrix of the graph. Complexity of algorithms based on this approach is related to the complexity of the sign function of a perfect matching in generalized decision tree models. We obtain lower bounds on the complexity of the sign of a perfect matching in terms of the deterministic communication complexity of the XOR sign function of a matching. These bounds demonstrate limitations of the symbolic Pfaffian method for both the general case and the case of sparse graphs.
Keywords:
perfect matching, Pfaffian, decision tree, communication complexity.
Received: 19.09.2020 Revised: 17.12.2020 Accepted: 17.12.2020
Citation:
M. N. Vyalyi, “Counting the number of perfect matchings, and generalized decision trees”, Probl. Peredachi Inf., 57:2 (2021), 51–70; Problems Inform. Transmission, 57:2 (2021), 143–160
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