Descriptive Complexity, Canonisation, and Definable Graph Structure Theory (Hardcover)

Descriptive complexity theory establishes a connection between the computational complexity of algorithmic problems (the computational resources required to solve the problems) and their descriptive complexity (the language resources required to describe the problems). This groundbreaking book approaches descriptive complexity from the angle of modern structural graph theory, specifically graph minor theory. It develops a 'definable structure theory' concerned with the logical definability of graph theoretic concepts such as tree decompositions and embeddings. The first part starts with an introduction to the background, from logic, complexity, and graph theory, and develops the theory up to first applications in descriptive complexity theory and graph isomorphism testing. It may serve as the basis for a graduate-level course. The second part is more advanced and mainly devoted to the proof of a single, previously unpublished theorem: properties of graphs with excluded minors are decidable in polynomial time if, and only if, they are definable in fixed-point logic with counting.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Lecture Notes in Logic
Release date:	August 2017
Authors:	Martin Grohe
Dimensions:	235 x 160 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	554
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-01452-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Combinatorics & graph theory Books > Computing & IT > General theory of computing > Data structures Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > Algorithms & procedures Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Mathematical foundations > Mathematical logic Promotions
LSN:	1-107-01452-2
Barcode:	9781107014527

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