A Parsimonious Reduction from #SAT to Motif-Avoidant Attractors in Bounded-Fan-In AND-NOT Boolean Networks
We construct an explicit polynomial-time parsimonious reduction from #SAT to counting motif-avoidant attractors of asynchronous Boolean networks. Each update is a conjunction of at most two signed literals or a constant, and the interaction graph has exactly one strongly connected component of size greater than one, comprising two nodes. We prove #MAA(N_phi) = #SAT(phi) by classifying terminal strongly connected components and minimal trap subcubes. Thus restricted MAA counting is #P-hard and restricted MAA existence is NP-hard. Two independent exhaustive finite verifiers corroborate the construction on small instances. Historical first-in-literature novelty has not been established; this is not a proof of P != NP, and full-class #P-completeness is not claimed. The accompanying source ZIP contains the full derivation, exact verification scripts and logs.
Authors
- Kias Henry
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-11-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23991141
- Primary Topic
- Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
- Type
- preprint