Definability equals recognizability for graphs of bounded treewidth

DOI10.1145/2933575.2934508zbMATH Open1394.03062arXiv1605.03045OpenAlexW2962996851MaRDI QIDQ4635898FDOQ4635898

Authors: Mikołaj Bojańczyk, Michał Pilipczuk 

Publication date: 23 April 2018

Published in: Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove a conjecture of Courcelle, which states that a graph property is definable in MSO with modular counting predicates on graphs of constant treewidth if, and only if it is recognizable in the following sense: constant-width tree decompositions of graphs satisfying the property can be recognized by tree automata. While the forward implication is a classic fact known as Courcelle's theorem, the converse direction remained open

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.03045

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zbMATH Keywords

treewidthmonadic second-order logicrecognizabilitytree decompositionSimon's factorization forest

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automata and formal grammars in connection with logical questions (03D05) Structural characterization of families of graphs (05C75)

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