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The study of very large graphs is a prominent theme in modern-day mathematics. In this paper we develop a rigorous foundation for studying the space of finite labelled graphs and their limits. These limiting objects are naturally countable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Apoorva Khare , Bala Rajaratnam

We study the expressive power of first-order logic with counting quantifiers, especially the $k$-variable and quantifier-rank-$q$ fragment, using homomorphism indistinguishability. Recently, Dawar, Jakl, and Reggio~(2021) proved that two…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Isolde Adler , Eva Fluck , Tim Seppelt , Gian Luca Spitzer

In comparison to graphs, combinatorial methods for the isomorphism problem of finite groups are less developed than algebraic ones. To be able to investigate the descriptive complexity of finite groups and the group isomorphism problem, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Jendrik Brachter , Pascal Schweitzer

In 1981, Neil Immerman described a two-player game, which he called the "separability game" \cite{Immerman81}, that captures the number of quantifiers needed to describe a property in first-order logic. Immerman's paper laid the groundwork…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Ronald Fagin , Jonathan Lenchner , Nikhil Vyas , Ryan Williams

Many real applications problems can be encoded easily as quantified formulas in SMT. However, this simplicity comes at the cost of difficulty during solving by SMT solvers. Different strategies and quantifier instantiation techniques have…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Mudathir Mohamed , Nick Feng , Andrew Reynolds , Cesare Tinelli , Clark Barrett , Marsha Chechik

This paper studies the unification problem with associative, commutative, and associative-commutative functions mainly from a viewpoint of the parameterized complexity on the number of variables. It is shown that both associative and…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2013-10-04 Tatsuya Akutsu , Takeyuki Tamura , Atsuhiro Takasu

This work investigates the algorithmic complexity of non-classical logics, focusing on superintuitionistic and modal systems. It is shown that propositional logics are usually polynomial-time reducible to their fragments with at most two…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Mikhail Rybakov

In many high-dimensional problems,polynomial-time algorithms fall short of achieving the statistical limits attainable without computational constraints. A powerful approach to probe the limits of polynomial-time algorithms is to study the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Bertrand Even , Christophe Giraud , Nicolas Verzelen

Linear logics have been shown to be able to embed both rewriting-based approaches and process calculi in a single, declarative framework. In this paper we are exploring the embedding of double-pushout graph transformations into quantified…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-12-01 Paolo Torrini , Reiko Heckel

We investigate the power of counting in Group Isomorphism. We first leverage the count-free variant of the Weisfeiler--Leman Version I algorithm for groups (Brachter & Schweitzer, LICS 2020) in tandem with limited non-determinism and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Nathaniel A. Collins , Michael Levet

Logics with team semantics provide alternative means for logical characterization of complexity classes. Both dependence and independence logic are known to capture non-deterministic polynomial time, and the frontiers of tractability in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Miika Hannula , Lauri Hella

We give a new, simplified and detailed account of the correspondence between levels of the Sherali-Adams relaxation of graph isomorphism and levels of pebble-game equivalence with counting (higher-dimensional Weisfeiler-Lehman colour…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Martin Grohe , Martin Otto

Pebble games are popular models for analyzing time-space trade-offs. In particular, the reversible pebble game is often applied in quantum algorithms like Grover's search to efficiently simulate classical computation on inputs in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Niels Kornerup , Jonathan Sadun , David Soloveichik

Pebble games are a powerful tool in the study of finite model theory, constraint satisfaction and database theory. Monads and comonads are basic notions of category theory which are widely used in semantics of computation and in modern…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Samson Abramsky , Anuj Dawar , Pengming Wang

We show that on graphs with n vertices, the 2-dimensional Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm requires at most O(n^2/log(n)) iterations to reach stabilization. This in particular shows that the previously best, trivial upper bound of O(n^2) is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Sandra Kiefer , Pascal Schweitzer

We present a novel approach for graph classification based on tabularizing graph data via new variants of the Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm and then applying methods for tabular data. The variants are obtained by modifying the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Reijo Jaakkola , Tomi Janhunen , Antti Kuusisto , Magdalena Ortiz , Matias Selin , Mantas Šimkus

We introduce a new model of indeterminacy in graphs: instead of specifying all the edges of the graph, the input contains all triples of vertices that form a connected subgraph. In general, different (labelled) graphs may have the same set…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Paul Bastide , Linda Cook , Jeff Erickson , Carla Groenland , Marc van Kreveld , Isja Mannens , Jordi L. Vermeulen

Graph theory is important in information theory. We introduce a quantization process on graphs and apply the quantized graphs in quantum information. The quon language provides a mathematical theory to study such quantized graphs in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Zhengwei Liu

We develop a method to recognize admissibility of $\Pi_{2}$-rules, relating this problem to a specific instance of the unification problem with linear constants restriction, called here "unification with simple variable restriction". It is…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Rodrigo Nicolau Almeida , Silvio Ghilardi