Dichotomy Theorems for Homomorphism Polynomials of Graph Classes

Abstract

In this paper, we will show dichotomy theorems for the computation of polynomials corresponding to evaluation of graph homomorphisms in Valiant's model. We are given a fixed graph H and want to find all graphs, from some graph class, homomorphic to this H. These graphs will be encoded by a family of polynomials. We give dichotomies for the polynomials for cycles, cliques, trees, outerplanar graphs, planar graphs and graphs of bounded genus (for different definitions of geni).