A logspace algorithm for tree canonization (extended abstract)

  • Authors:
  • Steven Lindell

  • Affiliations:
  • Haverford College, Haverford, PA

  • Venue:
  • STOC '92 Proceedings of the twenty-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

We present a solution to the problem of assigning to each directed tree T of size n a unique isomorphism invariant name for T, using only work space O(log n). Hence, tree isomorphism is computable in logspace. As another consequence, we obtain the corollary that the set of logspace computable queries (Lspace) on trees is recursively enumerable. Our results extend easily to undirected trees and even forests.