Planar graphs: logical complexity and parallel isomorphism tests

  • Authors:
  • Oleg Verbitsky

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin

  • Venue:
  • STACS'07 Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Theoretical aspects of computer science
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We prove that every triconnected planar graph on n vertices is definable by a first order sentence that uses at most 15 variables and has quantifier depth at most 11 log2 n + 45. As a consequence, a canonic form of such graphs is computable in AC1 by the 14-dimensional Weisfeiler-Lehman algorithm. This gives us another AC1 algorithm for the planar graph isomorphism.