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We give a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm that, given a parameter $k$ and two graphs $G_1,G_2$, either concludes that one of these graphs has treewidth at least $k$, or determines whether $G_1$ and $G_2$ are isomorphic. The running time…

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We study problems connected to first-order logic in graphs of bounded twin-width. Inspired by the approach of Bonnet et al. [FOCS 2020], we introduce a robust methodology of local types and describe their behavior in contraction sequences…

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We construct a fixed parameter algorithm parameterized by d and k that takes as an input a graph G' obtained from a d-degenerate graph G by complementing on at most k arbitrary subsets of the vertex set of G and outputs a graph H such that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Jakub Gajarsky , Daniel Kral

Given a hereditary family $\mathcal{G}$ of admissible graphs and a function $\lambda(G)$ that linearly depends on the statistics of order-$\kappa$ subgraphs in a graph $G$, we consider the extremal problem of determining…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Oleg Pikhurko , Jakub Sliacan , Konstantinos Tyros

We construct tree-decompositions of graphs that distinguish all their k-blocks and tangles of order k, for any fixed integer k. We describe a family of algorithms to construct such decompositions, seeking to maximize their diversity subject…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-25 Johannes Carmesin , Reinhard Diestel , Matthias Hamann , Fabian Hundertmark

Graph classes of bounded tree rank were introduced recently in the context of the model checking problem for first-order logic of graphs. These graph classes are a common generalization of graph classes of bounded degree and bounded…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Jakub Gajarský , Rose McCarty

Monadically stable and monadically NIP classes of structures were initially studied in the context of model theory and defined in logical terms. They have recently attracted attention in the area of structural graph theory, as they…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Jan Dreier , Nikolas Mählmann , Sebastian Siebertz , Szymon Toruńczyk

Traditionally, graph algorithms get a single graph as input, and then they should decide if this graph satisfies a certain property $\Phi$. What happens if this question is modified in a way that we get a possibly infinite family of graphs…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Volker Diekert , Henning Fernau , Petra Wolf

Let CMSO denote the counting monadic second order logic of graphs. We give a constructive proof that for some computable function $f$, there is an algorithm $\mathfrak{A}$ that takes as input a CMSO sentence $\varphi$, a positive integer…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira

We consider graph properties that can be checked from labels, i.e., bit sequences, of logarithmic length attached to vertices. We prove that there exists such a labeling for checking a first-order formula with free set variables in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Bruno Courcelle , Cyril Gavoille , Mamadou Moustapha Kanté

Nowhere dense classes of graphs are classes of sparse graphs with rich structural and algorithmic properties, however, they fail to capture even simple classes of dense graphs. Monadically stable classes, originating from model theory,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Jan Dreier , Nikolas Mählmann , Amer E. Mouawad , Sebastian Siebertz , Alexandre Vigny

We show that a locally finite, connected graph $G$ is $r$-locally chordal (that is, its $r/2$-balls are chordal) if and only if the unique canonical graph-decomposition $\mathcal{H}_r(G)$ of $G$ displaying its $r$-global structure is into…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Raphael W. Jacobs , Paul Knappe

In graph theory, the Szemer\'edi regularity lemma gives a decomposition of the indicator function for any graph $G$ into a structured component, a uniform part, and a small error. This result, in conjunction with a counting lemma that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-22 Sammy Luo

We study the question of whether, for a given class of finite graphs, one can define, for each graph of the class, a linear ordering in monadic second-order logic, possibly with the help of monadic parameters. We consider two variants of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Achim Blumensath , Bruno Courcelle

A countable, bounded degree graph is almost finite if it has a tiling with isomorphic copies of finitely many F\o lner sets, and we call it strongly almost finite, if the tiling can be randomized so that the probability that a vertex is on…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Gábor Elek , Ádám Timár

Given a family $\mathcal{F}$ of graphs, a graph is \emph{$\mathcal{F}$-subgraph-free} if it has no subgraph isomorphic to a member of $\mathcal{F}$. We present a fixed-parameter linear-time algorithm that decides whether a planar graph can…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shinwoo An , Seonghyuk Im , Seokbeom Kim , Myounghwan Lee

We present a structural approach of some results about jumps in the behavior of the profile (alias generating function) of hereditary classes of finite structures. We consider the following notion due to N.Thi\'ery and the second author. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Djamila Oudrar , Maurice Pouzet

Nowhere dense graph classes, introduced by Nesetril and Ossona de Mendez, form a large variety of classes of "sparse graphs" including the class of planar graphs, actually all classes with excluded minors, and also bounded degree graphs and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Martin Grohe , Stephan Kreutzer , Sebastian Siebertz

Let G be a finite graph with the non-k-order property (essentially, a uniform finite bound on the size of an induced sub-half-graph). A major result of the paper applies model-theoretic arguments to obtain a stronger version of…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-08-20 M. Malliaris , S. Shelah

A $\textit{compression scheme}$ $A$ for a class $\mathbb{G}$ of graphs consists of an encoding algorithm $\textit{Encode}_A$ that computes a binary string $\textit{Code}_A(G)$ for any given graph $G$ in $\mathbb{G}$ and a decoding algorithm…

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