Efficient Computation of Generalized Ising Polynomials on Graphs with Fixed Clique-Width

Graph polynomials which are definable in Monadic Second Order Logic (MSOL) on the vocabulary of graphs are Fixed-Parameter Tractable (FPT) with respect to clique-width. In contrast, graph polynomials which are definable in MSOL on the vocabulary of hypergraphs are fixed-parameter tractable with respect to tree-width, but not necessarily with respect to clique-width. No algorithmic meta-theorem is known for the computation of graph polynomials definable in MSOL on the vocabulary of hypergraphs with respect to clique-width. We define an infinite class of such graph polynomials extending the class of graph polynomials definable in MSOL on the vocabulary of graphs and prove that they are Fixed-Parameter Polynomial Time (FPPT) computable, i.e. that they can be computed in time O(n), where n is the number of vertices and k is the clique-width.