,
Michał Pilipczuk
,
Marek Sokołowski
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license
Let 𝜑 be a sentence of CMSO₂ (monadic second-order logic with quantification over edge subsets and counting modular predicates) over the signature of graphs. We present a dynamic data structure that for a given graph G that is updated by edge insertions and edge deletions, maintains whether 𝜑 is satisfied in G. The data structure is required to correctly report the outcome only when the feedback vertex number of G does not exceed a fixed constant k, otherwise it reports that the feedback vertex number is too large. With this assumption, we guarantee amortized update time O_{𝜑,k}(log n).
By combining this result with a classic theorem of Erdős and Pósa, we give a fully dynamic data structure that maintains whether a graph contains a packing of k vertex-disjoint cycles with amortized update time O_k(log n). Our data structure also works in a larger generality of relational structures over binary signatures.
@InProceedings{majewski_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2023.46,
author = {Majewski, Konrad and Pilipczuk, Micha{\l} and Soko{\l}owski, Marek},
title = {{Maintaining CMSO₂ Properties on Dynamic Structures with Bounded Feedback Vertex Number}},
booktitle = {40th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2023)},
pages = {46:1--46:13},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-266-2},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2023},
volume = {254},
editor = {Berenbrink, Petra and Bouyer, Patricia and Dawar, Anuj and Kant\'{e}, Mamadou Moustapha},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2023.46},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-176981},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2023.46},
annote = {Keywords: feedback vertex set, CMSO₂ formula, data structure, dynamic graphs, fixed-parameter tractability}
}