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A short note on the counting complexity of conjunctive queries

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arxiv 2112.01108 v1 pith:Z7RVSM2S submitted 2021-12-02 cs.LO cs.CCcs.DB

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keywords countingqueriescomplexityconjunctivealgorithmnoteassumptionsbound
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This note closes a minor gap in the literature on the counting complexity of conjunctive queries by showing that queries that are not free-connex do not have a linear time counting algorithm under standard complexity assumptions. More generally, it is shown that the so-called quantified star size is a lower bound for the exponent in the runtime of any counting algorithm for conjunctive queries.

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