9 research outputs found
On graphs with the same restricted U-polynomial and the U-polynomial for rooted graphs
In this abstract, we construct explicitly, for every k, pairs of non-isomorphic trees with the same restricted U-polynomial; by this we mean that the polynomials agree on terms with degree at most k. The construction is done purely in algebraic terms, after introducing and studying a generalization of the U-polynomial to rooted graphs.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft
Reconstructing trees from small cards
The -deck of a graph is the multiset of all induced subgraphs of
on vertices. In 1976, Giles proved that any tree on
vertices can be reconstructed from its -deck for . Our
main theorem states that it is enough to have , making
substantial progress towards a conjecture of N\'ydl from 1990. In addition, we
can recognise connectedness from the -deck if , and
reconstruct the degree sequence from the -deck if . All of these results are significant improvements on
previous bounds.Comment: 24 pages, fixed several typo
Homomorphism Tensors and Linear Equations
Lov\'asz (1967) showed that two graphs and are isomorphic if and only
if they are homomorphism indistinguishable over the class of all graphs, i.e.
for every graph , the number of homomorphisms from to equals the
number of homomorphisms from to . Recently, homomorphism
indistinguishability over restricted classes of graphs such as bounded
treewidth, bounded treedepth and planar graphs, has emerged as a surprisingly
powerful framework for capturing diverse equivalence relations on graphs
arising from logical equivalence and algebraic equation systems.
In this paper, we provide a unified algebraic framework for such results by
examining the linear-algebraic and representation-theoretic structure of
tensors counting homomorphisms from labelled graphs. The existence of certain
linear transformations between such homomorphism tensor subspaces can be
interpreted both as homomorphism indistinguishability over a graph class and as
feasibility of an equational system. Following this framework, we obtain
characterisations of homomorphism indistinguishability over two natural graph
classes, namely trees of bounded degree and graphs of bounded pathwidth,
answering a question of Dell et al. (2018).Comment: 33 pages, accepted for ICALP 202