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Totally $\Delta$-Modular Tree Decompositions of Graphic Matrices for Integer Programming

Combinatorics 2026-04-27 v3 Discrete Mathematics Data Structures and Algorithms Optimization and Control

Abstract

We introduce the tree-decomposition-based parameter totally Δ\Delta-modular treewidth (TDM-treewidth) for matrices with two nonzero entries per row. We show how to solve integer programs whose matrices have bounded TDM-treewidth in polynomial time when variables have bounded domain. This extends previous graph-based decomposition parameters for matrices with at most two nonzero entries per row to include matrices with entries outside of {1,0,1}\{-1,0,1\}. We also give an analogue of the Grid Theorem of Robertson and Seymour for matrices of bounded TDM-treewidth in the language of rooted signed graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2602.01499,
  title  = {Totally $\Delta$-Modular Tree Decompositions of Graphic Matrices for Integer Programming},
  author = {Caleb McFarland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.01499},
  year   = {2026}
}

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21 pages, 2 figures

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