CMSO-transducing tree-like graph decompositions
Logic in Computer Science
2026-05-12 v5 Computational Complexity
Discrete Mathematics
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
Abstract
We give -transductions that, given a graph , output its modular decomposition, its split decomposition and its bi-join decomposition. This improves results by Courcelle [Logical Methods in Computer Science, 2006] who gave such transductions using order-invariant , a strictly more expressive logic than . Our methods more generally yield -transductions that output the canonical decompositions of weakly-partitive set systems and weakly-bipartitive systems of bipartitions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2412.04970,
title = {CMSO-transducing tree-like graph decompositions},
author = {Rutger Campbell and Bruno Guillon and Mamadou Moustapha Kanté and Eun Jung Kim and Noleen Köhler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.04970},
year = {2026}
}