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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.101
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-181531
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2023/18153/
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Roberson, David E. ; Seppelt, Tim

Lasserre Hierarchy for Graph Isomorphism and Homomorphism Indistinguishability

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Abstract

We show that feasibility of the t^th level of the Lasserre semidefinite programming hierarchy for graph isomorphism can be expressed as a homomorphism indistinguishability relation. In other words, we define a class ℒ_t of graphs such that graphs G and H are not distinguished by the t^th level of the Lasserre hierarchy if and only if they admit the same number of homomorphisms from any graph in ℒ_t. By analysing the treewidth of graphs in ℒ_t we prove that the 3t^th level of Sherali-Adams linear programming hierarchy is as strong as the t^th level of Lasserre. Moreover, we show that this is best possible in the sense that 3t cannot be lowered to 3t-1 for any t. The same result holds for the Lasserre hierarchy with non-negativity constraints, which we similarly characterise in terms of homomorphism indistinguishability over a family ℒ_t^+ of graphs. Additionally, we give characterisations of level-t Lasserre with non-negativity constraints in terms of logical equivalence and via a graph colouring algorithm akin to the Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm. This provides a polynomial time algorithm for determining if two given graphs are distinguished by the t^th level of the Lasserre hierarchy with non-negativity constraints.

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@InProceedings{roberson_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.101,
  author =	{Roberson, David E. and Seppelt, Tim},
  title =	{{Lasserre Hierarchy for Graph Isomorphism and Homomorphism Indistinguishability}},
  booktitle =	{50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023)},
  pages =	{101:1--101:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-278-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{261},
  editor =	{Etessami, Kousha and Feige, Uriel and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/18153},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-181531},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.101},
  annote =	{Keywords: Lasserre hierarchy, homomorphism indistinguishability, Sherali-Adams hierarchy, treewidth, semidefinite programming, linear programming, graph isomorphism}
}

Keywords: Lasserre hierarchy, homomorphism indistinguishability, Sherali-Adams hierarchy, treewidth, semidefinite programming, linear programming, graph isomorphism
Collection: 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023)
Issue Date: 2023
Date of publication: 05.07.2023

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