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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2017.40
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-76841
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2017/7684/
Verbitsky, Oleg ;
Zhukovskii, Maksim
On the First-Order Complexity of Induced Subgraph Isomorphism
Abstract
Given a graph F, let I(F) be the class of graphs containing F
as an induced subgraph. Let W[F] denote the minimum k such that
I(F) is definable in k-variable first-order logic. The recognition
problem of I(F), known as Induced Subgraph Isomorphism (for the pattern graph F), is solvable in time O(n^{W[F]}). Motivated by this fact, we are interested in determining or estimating the value of W[F]. Using Olariu's characterization of paw-free graphs, we show that I(K_3+e) is definable by a first-order sentence of quantifier depth 3, where K_3+e denotes the paw graph. This provides an example of a graph F with W[F] strictly less than the number of vertices in F.
On the other hand, we prove that W[F]=4 for all F on 4 vertices
except the paw graph and its complement. If F is a graph on t vertices, we prove a general lower bound W[F]>(1/2-o(1))t, where the function in the little-o notation approaches 0 as t increases. This bound holds true even for a related parameter W^*[F], which is
defined as the minimum k such that I(F) is definable in the k-variable
infinitary logic. We show that W^*[F] can be strictly less than W[F]. Specifically, W^*[P_4]=3 for P_4 being the path graph on 4 vertices.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{verbitsky_et_al:LIPIcs:2017:7684,
author = {Oleg Verbitsky and Maksim Zhukovskii},
title = {{On the First-Order Complexity of Induced Subgraph Isomorphism}},
booktitle = {26th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2017)},
pages = {40:1--40:16},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-045-3},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2017},
volume = {82},
editor = {Valentin Goranko and Mads Dam},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2017/7684},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-76841},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2017.40},
annote = {Keywords: the induced subgraph isomorphism problem, descriptive and computational complexity, finite-variable first-order logic, quantifier depth and variable w}
}
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the induced subgraph isomorphism problem, descriptive and computational complexity, finite-variable first-order logic, quantifier depth and variable w |
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26th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2017) |
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2017 |
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16.08.2017 |
