Dillon Mayhew, Courcelle’s Theorem for hypergraphs
Dillon Mayhew, Courcelle’s Theorem for hypergraphs
Courcelle's Theorem is an influential meta-theorem published in 1990. It tells us that a property of graph can be tested in polynomial time, as long as the property can expressed in the monadic second-order logic of graphs, and as long as the input is restricted to a class of graphs with bounded tree-width. There are …