Modular counting of subgraphs: Matchings, matching-splittable graphs, and paths
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We systematically investigate the complexity of counting subgraph patterns modulo fixed integers. For example, it is known that the parity of the number of k-matchings can be determined in polynomial time by a simple reduction to the determinant. We generalize this to an n^f(t,s)-time algorithm to compute modulo 2^t the number of subgraph occurrences of patterns that are s vertices away from being matchings. This shows that the known polynomial-time cases of subgraph detection (Jansen and Marx, SODA 2015) carry over into the setting of counting modulo 2^t. Complementing our algorithm, we also give a simple and self-contained proof that counting k-matchings modulo odd integers q is Mod_q-W[1]-complete and prove that counting k-paths modulo 2 is Parity-W[1]-complete, answering an open question by Björklund, Dell, and Husfeldt (ICALP 2015).
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