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Efficient computation of generalized Ising polynomials on graphs with fixed clique-width

Logic in Computer Science 2015-05-26 v1

Abstract

Graph polynomials which are definable in Monadic Second Order Logic (MSOL) on the vocabulary of graphs are Fixed-Parameter Tractable (FPT) with respect to clique-width. In contrast, graph polynomials which are definable in MSOL on the vocabulary of hypergraphs are fixed-parameter tractable with respect to tree-width, but not necessarily with respect to clique width. No algorithmic meta-theorem is known for the computation of graph polynomials definable in MSOL on the vocabulary of hypergraphs with respect to clique-width. We define an infinite class of such graph polynomials extending the class of graph polynomials definable in MSOL on the vocabulary of graphs and prove that they are Fixed-Parameter Polynomial Time (FPPT) computable, i.e. that they can be computed in time O(nf(k))O(n^{f(k)}), where nn is the number of vertices and kk is the clique-width.

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@article{arxiv.1505.06617,
  title  = {Efficient computation of generalized Ising polynomials on graphs with fixed clique-width},
  author = {Tomer Kotek and Johann A. Makowsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.06617},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages, 1 figure

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