Research

Publications/Preprints ¹

1. Planar Graph Homomorphisms: A Dichotomy and a Barrier from Quantum Groups
   Jin-Yi Cai, Ashwin Maran, and Ben Young
   arXiv: 2601.23198 [cs.CC], 2026
2. Vanishing Signatures, Orbit Closure, and the Converse of the Holant Theorem
   Jin-Yi Cai and Ben Young
   ITCS 2026
3. The Converse of the Real Orthogonal Holant Theorem
   Ben Young
   ICALP 2025. Best Student Paper, Track A
4. Quantum Algorithms for Discrete Log Require Precise Rotations
   Jin-Yi Cai and Ben Young
   ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing 6.3, 2025.
5. Equality on all #CSP Instances Yields Constraint Function Isomorphism via Interpolation and Intertwiners
   Ben Young
   The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 32, 2025
6. Planar #CSP Equality Corresponds to Quantum Isomorphism - A Holant Viewpoint
   Jin-Yi Cai and Ben Young
   ICALP 2023
   ACM Transactions on Computation Theory 16.3, 2024.
7. The Number of Labeled n-ary Abelian Groups and Totally Symmetric Medial Quasigroups
   Ben Young, Austin Hacker, and Harold Connamacher
   Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics 57, 2023.