Sebastian Siebertz, Transducing paths in graph classes with unbounded shrubdepth
Zoom ID: 869 4632 6610 (ibsdimag)Transductions are a general formalism for expressing transformations of graphs (and more generally, of relational structures) in logic. We prove that a graph class C can be FO-transduced from a class of bounded-height trees (that is, has bounded shrubdepth) if, and only if, from C one cannot FO-transduce the class of all paths. This establishes …