Recognizability Equals Definability for Graphs of Bounded Treewidth and Bounded Chordality

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2015-11-01

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Bodlaender, HansORCID 0000-0002-9297-3330ISNI 0000000081342475
Heggernes, Pinar
Telle, Jan Arne

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Abstract

We prove that every recognizable family of graphs of bounded treewidth and bounded chordality is definable in counting monadic second-order logic.

Keywords

Automata, Chordality, Definability, Logic, Recognizability, Treewidth, Taverne, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Applied Mathematics

Citation

Bodlaender, H L, Heggernes, P & Telle, J A 2015, 'Recognizability Equals Definability for Graphs of Bounded Treewidth and Bounded Chordality', Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, vol. 49, pp. 559-568. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endm.2015.06.076