45 research outputs found
Structure Theorem and Isomorphism Test for Graphs with Excluded Topological Subgraphs
We generalize the structure theorem of Robertson and Seymour for graphs
excluding a fixed graph as a minor to graphs excluding as a topological
subgraph. We prove that for a fixed , every graph excluding as a
topological subgraph has a tree decomposition where each part is either "almost
embeddable" to a fixed surface or has bounded degree with the exception of a
bounded number of vertices. Furthermore, we prove that such a decomposition is
computable by an algorithm that is fixed-parameter tractable with parameter
.
We present two algorithmic applications of our structure theorem. To
illustrate the mechanics of a "typical" application of the structure theorem,
we show that on graphs excluding as a topological subgraph, Partial
Dominating Set (find vertices whose closed neighborhood has maximum size)
can be solved in time time. More significantly, we show
that on graphs excluding as a topological subgraph, Graph Isomorphism can
be solved in time . This result unifies and generalizes two
previously known important polynomial-time solvable cases of Graph Isomorphism:
bounded-degree graphs and -minor free graphs. The proof of this result needs
a generalization of our structure theorem to the context of invariant treelike
decomposition
Fixed-parameter tractable canonization and isomorphism test for graphs of bounded treewidth
We give a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm that, given a parameter and
two graphs , either concludes that one of these graphs has treewidth
at least , or determines whether and are isomorphic. The running
time of the algorithm on an -vertex graph is ,
and this is the first fixed-parameter algorithm for Graph Isomorphism
parameterized by treewidth.
Our algorithm in fact solves the more general canonization problem. We namely
design a procedure working in time that, for a
given graph on vertices, either concludes that the treewidth of is
at least , or: * finds in an isomorphic-invariant way a graph
that is isomorphic to ; * finds an isomorphism-invariant
construction term --- an algebraic expression that encodes together with a
tree decomposition of of width .
Hence, the isomorphism test reduces to verifying whether the computed
isomorphic copies or the construction terms for and are equal.Comment: Full version of a paper presented at FOCS 201
Successor-Invariant First-Order Logic on Graphs with Excluded Topological Subgraphs
We show that the model-checking problem for successor-invariant first-order
logic is fixed-parameter tractable on graphs with excluded topological
subgraphs when parameterised by both the size of the input formula and the size
of the exluded topological subgraph. Furthermore, we show that model-checking
for order-invariant first-order logic is tractable on coloured posets of
bounded width, parameterised by both the size of the input formula and the
width of the poset.
Our result for successor-invariant FO extends previous results for this logic
on planar graphs (Engelmann et al., LICS 2012) and graphs with excluded minors
(Eickmeyer et al., LICS 2013), further narrowing the gap between what is known
for FO and what is known for successor-invariant FO. The proof uses Grohe and
Marx's structure theorem for graphs with excluded topological subgraphs. For
order-invariant FO we show that Gajarsk\'y et al.'s recent result for FO
carries over to order-invariant FO
Planar graphs have bounded nonrepetitive chromatic number
A colouring of a graph isnonrepetitiveif for every path of even order, thesequence of colours on the first half of the path is different from the sequence of colours onthe second half. We show that planar graphs have nonrepetitive colourings with a boundednumber of colours, thus proving a conjecture of Alon, Grytczuk, Hałuszczak and Riordan(2002). We also generalise this result for graphs of bounded Euler genus, graphs excluding afixed minor, and graphs excluding a fixed topological minor