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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2021.34
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-146154
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2021/14615/
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Curticapean, Radu ; Dell, Holger ; Husfeldt, Thore

Modular Counting of Subgraphs: Matchings, Matching-Splittable Graphs, and Paths

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Abstract

We systematically investigate the complexity of counting subgraph patterns modulo fixed integers. For example, it is known that the parity of the number of k-matchings can be determined in polynomial time by a simple reduction to the determinant. We generalize this to an n^{f(t,s)}-time algorithm to compute modulo 2^t the number of subgraph occurrences of patterns that are s vertices away from being matchings. This shows that the known polynomial-time cases of subgraph detection (Jansen and Marx, SODA 2015) carry over into the setting of counting modulo 2^t. Complementing our algorithm, we also give a simple and self-contained proof that counting k-matchings modulo odd integers q is {Mod}_q W[1]-complete and prove that counting k-paths modulo 2 is ⊕W[1]-complete, answering an open question by Björklund, Dell, and Husfeldt (ICALP 2015).

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@InProceedings{curticapean_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2021.34,
  author =	{Curticapean, Radu and Dell, Holger and Husfeldt, Thore},
  title =	{{Modular Counting of Subgraphs: Matchings, Matching-Splittable Graphs, and Paths}},
  booktitle =	{29th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2021)},
  pages =	{34:1--34:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-204-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{204},
  editor =	{Mutzel, Petra and Pagh, Rasmus and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2021/14615},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-146154},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2021.34},
  annote =	{Keywords: Counting complexity, matchings, paths, subgraphs, parameterized complexity}
}

Keywords: Counting complexity, matchings, paths, subgraphs, parameterized complexity
Collection: 29th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2021)
Issue Date: 2021
Date of publication: 31.08.2021

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