Complexity and Completeness of Immanants

dc.creatorBrylinski, Jean-Luc
dc.creatorBrylinski, Ranee
dc.date2003-01-23
dc.date2003-01-23
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:19:23Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:19:23Z
dc.descriptionImmanants are polynomial functions of n by n matrices attached to irreducible characters of the symmetric group S_n, or equivalently to Young diagrams of size n. Immanants include determinants and permanents as extreme cases. Valiant proved that computation of permanents is a complete problem in his algebraic model of NP theory, i.e., it is VNP-complete. We prove that computation of immanants is VNP-complete if the immanants are attached to a family of diagrams whose separation is $Ω(n^δ)$ for some $δ>0$. We define the separation of a diagram to be the largest number of overhanging boxes contained in a single row. Our theorem proves a conjecture of Buergisser for a large variety of families, and in particular we recover with new proofs his VNP-completeness results for hooks and rectangles.
dc.description10 pages, Latex
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0301024
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0301024
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/31437
dc.subjectComputational Complexity
dc.subjectCombinatorics
dc.subjectF.1.3 ; F.2.3
dc.titleComplexity and Completeness of Immanants
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