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The Weisfeiler-Leman dimension of distance-hereditary graphs

Combinatorics 2020-05-26 v1 Computational Complexity Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

A graph is said to be distance-hereditary if the distance function in every connected induced subgraph is the same as in the graph itself. We prove that the ordinary Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm correctly tests the isomorphism of any two graphs if one of them is distance-hereditary; more precisely, the Weisfeiler-Leman dimension of the class of finite distance-hereditary graphs is equal to 22. The previously best known upper bound for the dimension was 77.

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@article{arxiv.2005.11766,
  title  = {The Weisfeiler-Leman dimension of distance-hereditary graphs},
  author = {Alexander L. Gavrilyuk and Roman Nedela and Ilia Ponomarenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.11766},
  year   = {2020}
}