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We show that it is equivalent, for certain sets of finite graphs, to be definable in CMS (counting monadic second-order logic, a natural extension of monadic second-order logic), and to be recognizable in an algebraic framework induced by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pascal Weil

Lov\'asz (1967) showed that two graphs $G$ and $H$ are isomorphic if and only if they are homomorphism indistinguishable over the class of all graphs, i.e. for every graph $F$, the number of homomorphisms from $F$ to $G$ equals the number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Martin Grohe , Gaurav Rattan , Tim Seppelt

This paper studies algorithmic meta theorems for property testing with \emph{constant running time} in the bounded degree model. In (Adler, Harwath 2018) it was shown that on graph classes $\mathcal C^{w}_d$ consisting of all graphs with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Isolde Adler , Jenny Stimpson

According to a theorem of Courcelle monadic second-order logic and guarded second-order logic (where one can also quantify over sets of edges) have the same expressive power over the class of all countable $k$-sparse hypergraphs. In the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Achim Blumensath

We consider distributed model-checking of Monadic Second-Order logic (MSO) on graphs which constitute the topology of communication networks. The graph is thus both the structure being checked and the system on which the distributed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-04-14 Stephane Grumbach , Zhilin Wu

Let S be a commutative semiring. M. Droste and P. Gastin have introduced in 2005 weighted monadic second order logic WMSOL with weights in S. They use a syntactic fragment RMSOL of WMSOL to characterize word functions (power series)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-07-18 Nadia Labai , Johann A. Makowsky

We combine integer linear programming and recent advances in Monadic Second-Order model checking to obtain two new algorithmic meta-theorems for graphs of bounded vertex-cover. The first shows that cardMSO1, an extension of the well-known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-25 Robert Ganian , Jan Obdržálek

A vertex-subset graph problem $Q$ defines which subsets of the vertices of an input graph are feasible solutions. The reconfiguration version of a vertex-subset problem $Q$ asks whether it is possible to transform one feasible solution for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Amer E. Mouawad , Naomi Nishimura , Venkatesh Raman , Marcin Wrochna

We give an alternative proof for the existing result that recurrent graph neural networks working with reals have the same expressive power in restriction to monadic second-order logic MSO as the graded modal substitution calculus. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Veeti Ahvonen , Damian Heiman , Antti Kuusisto

Two graphs $G$ and $H$ are homomorphism indistinguishable over a graph class $\mathcal{F}$ if they admit the same number of homomorphisms from every graph $F \in \mathcal{F}$. Many graph isomorphism relaxations such as (quantum) isomorphism…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Marek Černý , Tim Seppelt

Lov\'asz (1967) showed that two graphs $G$ and $H$ are isomorphic if, and only if, they are homomorphism indistinguishable over all graphs, i.e., $G$ and $H$ admit the same number of number of homomorphisms from every graph $F$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Daniel Neuen , Tim Seppelt

The graph model checking problem consists in testing whether an input graph satisfies a given logical formula. In this paper, we study this problem in a distributed setting, namely local certification. The goal is to assign labels to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Nicolas Bousquet , Laurent Feuilloley , Théo Pierron

Given a graph $G$ and a vertex set $X$, the annotated treewidth tw$(G,X)$ of $X$ in $G$ is the maximum treewidth of an $X$-rooted minor of $G$, i.e., a minor $H$ where the model of each vertex of $H$ contains some vertex of $X$. That way,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Ignasi Sau , Giannos Stamoulis , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

We give an analog of the Myhill-Nerode methods from formal language theory for hypergraphs and use it to derive the following results for two NP-hard hypergraph problems: * We provide an algorithm for testing whether a hypergraph has…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-01-12 René van Bevern , Rodney G. Downey , Michael R. Fellows , Serge Gaspers , Frances A. Rosamond

We introduce the concept of a class of graphs, or more generally, relational structures, being locally tree-decomposable. There are numerous examples of locally tree-decomposable classes, among them the class of planar graphs and all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Markus Frick , Martin Grohe

Treewidth is a parameter that emerged from the study of minor closed classes of graphs (i.e. classes closed under vertex and edge deletion, and edge contraction). It in some sense describes the global structure of a graph. Roughly, a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Tara Abrishami , Maria Chudnovsky , Kristina Vušković

In high-dimensional graph learning problems, some topological properties of the graph, such as bounded node degree or tree structure, are typically assumed to hold so that the sample complexity of recovering the graph structure can be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-12 De Wen Soh , Sekhar Tatikonda

Two graphs are homomorphism indistinguishable over a graph class $\mathcal{F}$, denoted by $G \equiv_{\mathcal{F}} H$, if $\operatorname{hom}(F,G) = \operatorname{hom}(F,H)$ for all $F \in \mathcal{F}$ where $\operatorname{hom}(F,G)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Daniel Neuen

We prove that for every positive integer k, there exists an MSO_1-transduction that given a graph of linear cliquewidth at most k outputs, nondeterministically, some cliquewidth decomposition of the graph of width bounded by a function of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Martin Grohe , Michał Pilipczuk

Given a graph and two vertex sets satisfying a certain feasibility condition, a reconfiguration problem asks whether we can reach one vertex set from the other by repeating prescribed modification steps while maintaining feasibility. In…

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