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Is every positive integer the permanent of some 0-1 matrix?
In the course of discussing another MO question we realized that we did not know the answer to a more basic question, namely:
Is it true that for every positive integer $k$ there exists a balanced ...
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Reduction from permanent to $(0,1)$-permanent and implication of $P \ne NP$
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shows reduction from counting the solutions of CNF formula $F$,$\#SAT(F)$
to computing permanent where $ Perm(A)= 4^{t(F)}\cdot \#SAT(F)$
for certain efficiently computable $t(F)$ and matrix $...
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