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CMSO-transducing tree-like graph decompositions

Logic in Computer Science 2026-05-12 v5 Computational Complexity Discrete Mathematics Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Abstract

We give CMSO\operatorname{CMSO}-transductions that, given a graph GG, output its modular decomposition, its split decomposition and its bi-join decomposition. This improves results by Courcelle [Logical Methods in Computer Science, 2006] who gave such transductions using order-invariant MSO\operatorname{MSO}, a strictly more expressive logic than CMSO\operatorname{CMSO}. Our methods more generally yield C2MSO\operatorname{C}_2 \operatorname{MSO}-transductions that output the canonical decompositions of weakly-partitive set systems and weakly-bipartitive systems of bipartitions.

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@article{arxiv.2412.04970,
  title  = {CMSO-transducing tree-like graph decompositions},
  author = {Rutger Campbell and Bruno Guillon and Mamadou Moustapha Kanté and Eun Jung Kim and Noleen Köhler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.04970},
  year   = {2026}
}
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