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Graph Isomorphism Parameterized by Elimination Distance to Bounded Degree

  • Jannis Bulian
  • Anuj Dawar
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 8894)

Abstract

A commonly studied means of parameterizing graph problems is the deletion distance from triviality [10], which counts vertices that need to be deleted from a graph to place it in some class for which efficient algorithms are known. In the context of graph isomorphism, we define triviality to mean a graph with maximum degree bounded by a constant, as such graph classes admit polynomial-time isomorphism tests. We generalise deletion distance to a measure we call elimination distance to triviality, based on elimination trees or tree-depth decompositions. We establish that graph canonisation, and thus graph isomorphism, is \(\mathsf {FPT}\) when parameterized by elimination distance to bounded degree, generalising results of Bouland et al. [2] on isomorphism parameterized by tree-depth.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.University of Cambridge Computer LaboratoryCambridgeUK

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