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Courcelle's Theorem Made Dynamic

Computational Complexity 2017-02-20 v1 Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Abstract

Dynamic complexity is concerned with updating the output of a problem when the input is slightly changed. We study the dynamic complexity of model checking a fixed monadic second-order formula over evolving subgraphs of a fixed maximal graph having bounded tree-width; here the subgraph evolves by losing or gaining edges (from the maximal graph). We show that this problem is in DynFO (with LOGSPACE precomputation), via a reduction to a Dyck reachability problem on an acyclic automaton.

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@article{arxiv.1702.05183,
  title  = {Courcelle's Theorem Made Dynamic},
  author = {Patricia Bouyer-Decitre and Vincent Jugé and Nicolas Markey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.05183},
  year   = {2017}
}

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14 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1610.00571

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