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A bull is a graph obtained from a four-vertex path by adding a vertex adjacent to the two middle vertices of the path. A graph $G$ is bull-free if no induced subgraph of $G$ is a bull. We prove that for all $k,t\in \mathbb{N}$, if $G$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Sepehr Hajebi

This research establishes that many real-world networks exhibit bounded expansion, a strong notion of structural sparsity, and demonstrates that it can be leveraged to design efficient algorithms for network analysis. We analyze several…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Erik D. Demaine , Felix Reidl , Peter Rossmanith , Fernando Sanchez Villaamil , Somnath Sikdar , Blair D. Sullivan

We consider problems of the following type: given a graph $G$, how many edges are needed in the worst case for a sparse subgraph $H$ that approximately preserves distances between a given set of node pairs $P$? Examples include pairwise…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Greg Bodwin

We define a range of new coarse geometric invariants based on various graph-theoretic measures of complexity for finite graphs, including: treewidth, pathwidth, cutwidth and bandwidth. We prove that, for bounded degree graphs, these…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Wanying Huang , David Hume , Samuel J. Kelly , Ryan Lam

Using the theory of $L^p$-graphons (Borgs et al, 2014), we derive and rigorously justify the continuum limit for systems of differential equations on sparse random graphs. Specifically, we show that the solutions of the initial value…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Dmitry Kaliuzhnyi-Verbovetskyi , Georgi S. Medvedev

Partitioning a graph using graph separators, and particularly clique separators, are well-known techniques to decompose a graph into smaller units which can be treated independently. It was previously known that the treewidth was bounded…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Boi Faltings , Martin Charles Golumbic

We prove that if $\mathcal{C}$ is a hereditary class of graphs that is polynomially $\chi$-bounded, then the class of graphs that admit decompositions into pieces belonging to $\mathcal{C}$ along cuts of bounded rank is also polynomially…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Marthe Bonamy , Michał Pilipczuk

We give some new bounds for the clique and independence numbers of a graph in terms of its eigenvalues.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Vladimir Nikiforov

Let $G$ be a bipartite graph, and let $H$ be a bipartite graph with a fixed bipartition $(B_H,W_H)$. We consider three different, natural ways of forbidding $H$ as an induced subgraph in $G$. First, $G$ is $H$-free if it does not contain…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Konrad K. Dabrowski , Daniël Paulusma

We give a new proof of the fact that every planar graph is 5-choosable, and use it to show that every graph drawn in the plane so that the distance between every pair of crossings is at least 15 is 5-choosable. At the same time we may allow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-16 Zdenek Dvorak , Bernard Lidicky , Bojan Mohar

Sparse-dense partitions was introduced by Feder, Hell, Klein, and Motwani [STOC 1999, SIDMA 2003] as a tool to solve partitioning problems. In this paper, the following result concerning independent sets in graphs having sparse-dense…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Uéverton S. Souza

Mim-width and sim-width are among the most powerful graph width parameters, with sim-width more powerful than mim-width, which is in turn more powerful than clique-width. While several $\mathsf{NP}$-hard graph problems become tractable for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Andrea Munaro , Shizhou Yang

We give the first Congested Clique algorithm that computes a sparse hopset with polylogarithmic hopbound in polylogarithmic time. Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, a $(\beta,\epsilon)$-hopset $H$ with "hopbound" $\beta$, is a set of edges added to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Yasamin Nazari

In the {\sc Cluster Deletion} problem the goal is to remove the minimum number of edges of a given graph, such that every connected component of the resulting graph constitutes a clique. It is known that the decision version of {\sc Cluster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Athanasios L. Konstantinidis , Charis Papadopoulos

In this paper we introduce a family of planar, modular and self-similar graphs which have small-world and scale-free properties. The main parameters of this family are comparable to those of networks associated to complex systems, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-06-10 Lichao Chen , Francesc Comellas , Zhongzhi Zhang

We describe a general approach of determining the distribution of spanning subgraphs in the random graph $\G(n,p)$. In particular, we determine the distribution of spanning subgraphs of certain given degree sequences, which is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-16 Pu Gao

Let $K_m-H$ be the graph obtained from $K_m$ by removing the edges set $E(H)$ of $H$ where $H$ is a subgraph of $K_m$. In this paper, we characterize the potentially $K_5-P_4$ and $K_5-Y_4$-graphic sequences where $Y_4$ is a tree on 5…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-15 Lili Hu , Chunhui Lai , Ping Wang

A recent work of Abbasi et al. [FOCS 2023] introduced the notion of $\varepsilon$-scatter dimension of a metric space and showed a general framework for efficient parameterized approximation schemes (so-called EPASes) for a wide range of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Romain Bourneuf , Marcin Pilipczuk

Treewidth is a parameter that emerged from the study of minor closed classes of graphs (i.e. classes closed under vertex and edge deletion, and edge contraction). It in some sense describes the global structure of a graph. Roughly, a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Tara Abrishami , Maria Chudnovsky , Kristina Vušković

We define an infinite set of families of graphs, which we call $p$-wheels and denote $(Wh)^{(p)}_n$, that generalize the wheel ($p=1$) and biwheel ($p=2$) graphs. The chromatic polynomial for $(Wh)^{(p)}_n$ is calculated, and remarkably…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Robert Shrock , Shan-Ho Tsai