Factoring and recognition of read-once functions using cographs and normality and the readability of functions associated with partial k-trees

  • Authors:
  • Martin Charles Golumbic;Aviad Mintz;Udi Rotics

  • Affiliations:
  • Caesarea Rothschild Institute and Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel;Caesarea Rothschild Institute and Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel;School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Netanya Academic College, Netanya, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

An approach for factoring general boolean functions was described in Golumbic and Mintz [Factoring logic functions using graph partitioning, in: Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, November 1999, pp. 195-198] and Mintz and Golumbic [Factoring Boolean functions using graph partitioning, Discrete Appl. Math. 149 (2005) 131-153] which is based on graph partitioning algorithms. In this paper, we present a very fast algorithm for recognizing and factoring read-once functions which is needed as a dedicated factoring subroutine to handle the lower levels of that factoring process. The algorithm is based on algorithms for cograph recognition and on checking normality.For non-read-once functions, we investigate their factoring based on their corresponding graph classes. In particular, we show that if a function F is normal and its corresponding graph is a partial k-tree, then F is a read 2k function and a read 2k formula for F can be obtained in polynomial time.