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Tree automata and pigeonhole classes of matroids: II

Combinatorics 2023-06-28 v5

Abstract

Let ψ\psi be a sentence in the counting monadic second-order logic of matroids and let F\mathbb{F} be a finite field. Hlin\v{e}n\'{y}'s Theorem says that we can test whether F\mathbb{F}-representable matroids satisfy ψ\psi using an algorithm that is fixed-parameter tractable with respect to branch-width. In a previous paper we proved there is a similar fixed-parameter tractable algorithm that can test the members of any efficiently pigeonhole class. In this sequel we apply results from the first paper and thereby extend Hlin\v{e}n\'{y}'s Theorem to the classes of fundamental transversal matroids, lattice path matroids, bicircular matroids, and HH-gain-graphic matroids, when HH is a finite group. As a consequence, we can obtain a new proof of Courcelle's Theorem.

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@article{arxiv.1910.04361,
  title  = {Tree automata and pigeonhole classes of matroids: II},
  author = {Daryl Funk and Dillon Mayhew and Mike Newman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.04361},
  year   = {2023}
}