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Counting Bounded Tree Depth Homomorphisms

Logic in Computer Science 2020-03-19 v1 Discrete Mathematics Combinatorics

Abstract

We prove that graphs G, G' satisfy the same sentences of first-order logic with counting of quantifier rank at most k if and only if they are homomorphism-indistinguishable over the class of all graphs of tree depth at most k. Here G, G' are homomorphism-indistinguishable over a class C of graphs if for each graph F in C, the number of homomorphisms from F to G equals the number of homomorphisms from F to G'.

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@article{arxiv.2003.08164,
  title  = {Counting Bounded Tree Depth Homomorphisms},
  author = {Martin Grohe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.08164},
  year   = {2020}
}