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How hard is counting the number of solutions?

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Trees: complexity of counting the number of vertex covers

The complement of a vertex cover is an independent set. Your question is therefore equivalent to asking whether counting independent sets is #P-complete on trees. The answer to this question is NO, …
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7 votes

Counting solutions of Monotone-2CNF formulas

Some observations, not an answer. Further to the note to the question, any combination of 3 literals can be expressed in terms of any other combination of literals on the same variables, together wit …
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Compactly representing the solution set of a SAT instance

As stated (revision 3), the question has a simple answer: no. The reason is that even for the highly restricted class of representations given by Boolean circuits with AND, OR, and NOT gates, no nont …
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Examples of hardness phase transitions

A particularly striking example of a phase transition is the maximum degree bound for Exactly-$k$-SAT (X$k$SAT), in which each clause contains exactly $k$ distinct literals. The problem flips from be …
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When is relaxed counting hard?

Some comments: not an answer. If $c$ is small enough with respect to the number of vertices in the graph, then the improper colourings will add up to less than 1. Hence there is a trivial reduction …
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