Title
Graphs Identified by Logics with Counting.
Abstract
We classify graphs and, more generally, finite relational structures that are identified by C-2, that is, two-variable first-order logic with counting. Using this classification, we show that it can be decided in almost linear time whether a structure is identified by C-2. Our classification implies that for every graph identified by this logic, all vertexcolored versions of it are also identified. A similar statement is true for finite relational structures. We provide constructions that solve the inversion problem for finite structures in linear time. This problem has previously been shown to be polynomial time solvable by Martin Otto. For graphs, we conclude that every C-2-equivalence class contains a graph whose orbits are exactly the classes of the C-2-partition of its vertex set and which has a single automorphism witnessing this fact. For general k, we show that such statements are not true by providing examples of graphs of size linear in k which are identified by C-3 but for which the orbit partition is strictly finer than the C-k-partition. We also provide identified graphs which have vertex-colored versions that are not identified by C-k.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-662-48057-1_25
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Field
DocType
Volume
Graph,Discrete mathematics,Indifference graph,Combinatorics,Chordal graph,Time complexity,Longest path problem,1-planar graph,Mathematics
Journal
9234
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
5
0.43
References 
Authors
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sandra Kiefer192.50
Pascal Schweitzer2346.39
Erkal Selman3121.23