I first asked this on cstheory.SE but got no reply.
Let P(Xi=x) represent probability that randomly chosen proper q-coloring of an L×L square grid contains color x at position i. How do you efficiently compute P(Xi=Xj) for every pair (i,j)?
Fastest known method for counting q-proper colorings on grids uses tree decomposition. To extend it to this problem, one needs a set of tree decompositions so that every pair of vertices is contained in some bag. Is anything known about this problem?
Motivation: this is essentially two-point correlation function of Potts model, but also correlation function of self-avoiding walks and few other "all-pairs" problems face the same issue
This post imported from StackExchange MathOverflow at 2015-04-19 11:49 (UTC), posted by SE-user Yaroslav Bulatov