Hardness of monadic second-order formulae over succinct graphs

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Main Authors: Gamard, Guilhem, Goubault-Larrecq, Aliénor, Guillon, Pierre, Ohlmann, Pierre, Perrot, Kévin, Theyssier, Guillaume
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Published: 2023
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author Gamard, Guilhem
Goubault-Larrecq, Aliénor
Guillon, Pierre
Ohlmann, Pierre
Perrot, Kévin
Theyssier, Guillaume
author_facet Gamard, Guilhem
Goubault-Larrecq, Aliénor
Guillon, Pierre
Ohlmann, Pierre
Perrot, Kévin
Theyssier, Guillaume
contents Our main result is a succinct counterpoint to Courcelle's meta-theorem as follows: every cw-nontrivial monadic second-order (MSO) property is either NP-hard or coNP-hard over graphs given by succinct representations. Succint representations are Boolean circuits computing the adjacency relation. Cw-nontrivial properties are those which have infinitely many models and infinitely many countermodels with bounded cliquewidth. Moreover, we explore what happens when the cw-nontriviality condition is dropped and show that, under a reasonable complexity assumption, the previous dichotomy fails, even for questions expressible in first-order logic.
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spellingShingle Hardness of monadic second-order formulae over succinct graphs
Gamard, Guilhem
Goubault-Larrecq, Aliénor
Guillon, Pierre
Ohlmann, Pierre
Perrot, Kévin
Theyssier, Guillaume
Computational Complexity
Logic in Computer Science
Our main result is a succinct counterpoint to Courcelle's meta-theorem as follows: every cw-nontrivial monadic second-order (MSO) property is either NP-hard or coNP-hard over graphs given by succinct representations. Succint representations are Boolean circuits computing the adjacency relation. Cw-nontrivial properties are those which have infinitely many models and infinitely many countermodels with bounded cliquewidth. Moreover, we explore what happens when the cw-nontriviality condition is dropped and show that, under a reasonable complexity assumption, the previous dichotomy fails, even for questions expressible in first-order logic.
title Hardness of monadic second-order formulae over succinct graphs
topic Computational Complexity
Logic in Computer Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04522