A Collapse Theorem for Holographic Algorithms with Matchgates on Domain Size at Most 4

Jin-Yi Cai; Zhiguo Fu

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A Collapse Theorem for Holographic Algorithms with Matchgates on Domain Size at Most 4

Jin-Yi Cai·Zhiguo Fu

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Holographic algorithms with matchgates are a novel approach to design polynomial time computation. It uses Kasteleyn's algorithm for perfect matchings, and more importantly a holographic reduction . The two fundamental parameters of a holographic reduction are the domain size $k$ of the underlying problem, and the basis size $\ell$. A holographic reduction transforms the computation to matchgates by a linear transformation that maps to (a tensor product space of) a linear space of dimension $2^{\ell}$. We prove a sharp basis collapse theorem, that shows that for domain size 3 and 4, all non-trivial holographic reductions have basis size $\ell$ collapse to 1 and 2 respectively. The main proof techniques are Matchgates Identities, and a Group Property of matchgates signatures.

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Jin-Yi Cai, Zhiguo Fu. 2013-05-07. A Collapse Theorem for Holographic Algorithms with Matchgates on Domain Size at Most 4. https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.1409

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