Separability Properties of Monadically Dependent Graph Classes

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Main Authors: Bonnet, Édouard, Braunfeld, Samuel, Eleftheriadis, Ioannis, Geniet, Colin, Mählmann, Nikolas, Pilipczuk, Michał, Przybyszewski, Wojciech, Toruńczyk, Szymon
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author Bonnet, Édouard
Braunfeld, Samuel
Eleftheriadis, Ioannis
Geniet, Colin
Mählmann, Nikolas
Pilipczuk, Michał
Przybyszewski, Wojciech
Toruńczyk, Szymon
author_facet Bonnet, Édouard
Braunfeld, Samuel
Eleftheriadis, Ioannis
Geniet, Colin
Mählmann, Nikolas
Pilipczuk, Michał
Przybyszewski, Wojciech
Toruńczyk, Szymon
contents A graph class $\mathcal C$ is monadically dependent if one cannot interpret all graphs in colored graphs from $\mathcal C$ using a fixed first-order interpretation. We prove that monadically dependent classes can be exactly characterized by the following property, which we call flip-separability: for every $r\in \mathbb{N}$, $\varepsilon>0$, and every graph $G\in \mathcal{C}$ equipped with a weight function on vertices, one can apply a bounded (in terms of $\mathcal{C},r,\varepsilon$) number of flips (complementations of the adjacency relation on a subset of vertices) to $G$ so that in the resulting graph, every radius-$r$ ball contains at most an $\varepsilon$-fraction of the total weight. On the way to this result, we introduce a robust toolbox for working with various notions of local separations in monadically dependent classes.
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spellingShingle Separability Properties of Monadically Dependent Graph Classes
Bonnet, Édouard
Braunfeld, Samuel
Eleftheriadis, Ioannis
Geniet, Colin
Mählmann, Nikolas
Pilipczuk, Michał
Przybyszewski, Wojciech
Toruńczyk, Szymon
Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
Logic in Computer Science
Logic
A graph class $\mathcal C$ is monadically dependent if one cannot interpret all graphs in colored graphs from $\mathcal C$ using a fixed first-order interpretation. We prove that monadically dependent classes can be exactly characterized by the following property, which we call flip-separability: for every $r\in \mathbb{N}$, $\varepsilon>0$, and every graph $G\in \mathcal{C}$ equipped with a weight function on vertices, one can apply a bounded (in terms of $\mathcal{C},r,\varepsilon$) number of flips (complementations of the adjacency relation on a subset of vertices) to $G$ so that in the resulting graph, every radius-$r$ ball contains at most an $\varepsilon$-fraction of the total weight. On the way to this result, we introduce a robust toolbox for working with various notions of local separations in monadically dependent classes.
title Separability Properties of Monadically Dependent Graph Classes
topic Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
Logic in Computer Science
Logic
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11144